2017 Summer Universiade

Today officially marked the last day of the 2017 Summer Universiade, aka the Taipei 2017 Universiade, an Olympics-lite event organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation.  This was the biggest sporting event Taipei has ever hosted, and they pulled out all the stops.  Although tickets to all events were sold out by […]

JFK to TPE

Well, we finally took the plunge.  Certainly no easy feat, but Philip, Jules and I managed to pack up our lives in Brooklyn, NY and start anew in my birthplace, Taipei, Taiwan for one year. Why would we do something so crazy, you ask?  Well, we knew that the window of opportunity to live abroad […]