Language: English
Date: Sept 26, 2021
Listening to: The Jordan Lake Sessions (Vol 1) by the Mountain Goats
 

As September slips quietly away, I have started to give the calendar suspicious looks because, by the numbers, I have only 9 weeks left in Taiwan. That can’t possibly be right, right? I have been taking it slow in Taipei for the last half of September, tackling end-of-grant challenges like starting to shoot off job applications into the HR abyss and budgeting my stipend to stretch until November 29. But October, the best month for new beginnings as Thomas Merton would point out, is spread out in front of me with thirty one days full of promise (and hopefully cooler weather). So in honor of my last months in Taiwan and the yearly poetic justice that is the month of October, I have gone through my list of new Chinese vocabulary and picked out my favorite words and phrases that describe this past year.


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