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Such a great visit to 大禮大同部落 Dali Datong Village, Taroko Gorge, Hualien ~ Home of 頭目達道 Truku Chief Dadao!

Catherine Lee

What an amazing place, amazing weekend, and what amazing people! Chief Dadao (頭目達道) of the Truku (Taroko) Tribe lives high up on a beautiful plateau, at over 1,100 m in altitude, way up above the steep slopes of the spectacular marble gorge, Taroko Gorge in Hualien on Taiwan’s east coast.  We went there to visit over this past weekend, and here’s us sitting with him on the bench outside his house, with THE view behind us! The mountains of the east coast go straight down to the sea with spectacular views over the Pacific Ocean. Liwu Mountain 立霧山 (1,274 m) is … Continue reading Such a great visit to 大禮大同部落 Dali Datong Village, Taroko Gorge, Hualien ~ Home of 頭目達道 Truku Chief Dadao!

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Advent Church Community Concert 2016 社區音樂會!

Catherine Lee

Our annual community concert at Advent Church last night to celebrate Mid-Autumn Moon Festival – and to give the local community a chance to come together to perform and celebrate. A great variety of choirs and groups and individuals as always, all wonderful!  We had all sorts of music, from musicals to pop to classical, from indigenous aboriginal to traditional Chinese, from ancient to modern, from Bunun to A-mei to Taiwanese to Chinese to Japanese to English, and everything in between….. loved it all! And the highlight is always the Bunun Church Choir who perform last, and they were wonderful … Continue reading Advent Church Community Concert 2016 社區音樂會!

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Round-Taiwan Tour with Nicky and Harriet ~ YES!

Catherine Lee

Yep, we’ve done a whole circuit of Taiwan this past week ~ ‘n what a beautiful country! Nicky and Harriet, my 2 lovely visitors from one of my CMS Link Churches, St. John’s, Neville’s Cross, Durham, UK, had already been here a week, based in Taipei, and so this was the chance for them to see a little of this beautiful island ~ Ilha Formosa (‘Beautiful Isle’, the name given by Portuguese sailors), otherwise known as….. Taiwan! Last Monday, July 11, when we set off, southern Taiwan was still reeling from Typhoon Nepartak which had wreaked havoc a few days … Continue reading Round-Taiwan Tour with Nicky and Harriet ~ YES!

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台灣聖公會台中市聖雅各幼兒園「給夢想一雙翅膀」愛心園遊會 ~ St. James’ Preschool, Taichung, Charity Bazaar 2016!

Catherine Lee

And this year, even more lovely people came than usual, and lots of smiling VIPs came too ~ here they all are last Saturday at the St. James’ Charity Bazaar! Every year on the Saturday before Mother’s Day weekend, St. James’ Preschool and Language Institute hold a great fiesta, bazaar, fair, extravaganza all rolled into one. And every year they raise a lot of money for charity.  And every year the charity is different. This year there are 2 charities, Wulai District Fu-shan Presbyterian Church 烏來福山教會outreach to local children and young people of the Atayal Tribe in the mountains south of Taipei, … Continue reading 台灣聖公會台中市聖雅各幼兒園「給夢想一雙翅膀」愛心園遊會 ~ St. James’ Preschool, Taichung, Charity Bazaar 2016!

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Miaoli’s Mysterious Misty Mountains….

Catherine Lee

A trip yesterday to the Nanzhuang district 南庄鄉 in the far NE corner of Miaoli County 苗栗縣, central Taiwan ~ kind of the middle of a very beautiful nowhere!  Our diocesan women’s group and seniors group organized a great trip for almost 60 lovely people from our churches in northern Taiwan ~ up into the misty mountains of Miaoli.  Here we all are, along with Bishop Lai, his wife Lily, her aunt, plus several other clergy and clergy spouses! That part of Miaoli is famous for 2 main groups of people who live there, the Hakka people and the indigenous aboriginal … Continue reading Miaoli’s Mysterious Misty Mountains….

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True Southern Hospitality @ St. Mark’s Church, Pingtung 台灣聖公會屏東聖馬可堂!

Catherine Lee

Culture Shock.  You’d never believe it.  Yep, for a northerner (that’s me), the south of Taiwan is quite a culture shock ha ha!  Everything works just like in the north, but at a much more stately pace.  Nobody seems to be in a rush to go anywhere.  There’s just as many traffic lights, but hardly any cars or buses or even people waiting at them.  It’s just, so, well, quiet!  And spread out.  In the north, all the old one-storey Japanese houses are now largely gone, replaced by multi-storey apartment blocks, but in the south, they’re still lived in, so … Continue reading True Southern Hospitality @ St. Mark’s Church, Pingtung 台灣聖公會屏東聖馬可堂!