We've settled in and life is beginning to find its routine. We're having fun exploring and getting involved and even enjoying just the routine of living in one place and knowing we will be here for awhile. I hope to catch-up, in the next few weeks, with some of the things we have been doing and some of the observations I've made.
We joined in, one Saturday, with a bunch of other people from AIT to do some beach clean-up. Each year Taiwan sponsors various clean-up days on beaches around the island. There were probably about 200 people on this one beach picking up trash. It was very well organized and turned out to be a lot of fun. They had gloves and bags and pinchers for us to use. The Taiwanese people are amazingly clean and you typically don't see trash around. (You also don't see garbage cans around either, but that's a different story.) But after a few typhoons, stuff gets blown in and blown around and it takes a lot of work to get things cleaned up again. So we just walked around with our pinchers picking up little bits of refuse and putting it in our bags. It was amazing the pile of trash two hundred people collected.
We explored a bit after we were finished and came across a harbor full of these fishing boats. They are strung with huge light bulbs. Man I would love to see them all lit up at night! From what I read, they are used to light up the boat and attract fish. I'd like to return when they are coming in from a trip and see them unload the fish. I'll have to ask around a bit and see what I can learn!
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