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Phillip and Jennifer are currently living in Taiwan for a year! Jennifer is working for an international school teaching first grade (yes, this is new!). Phillip will be working on his education and taking good care of his wife..... page down to the bottom of this page to view past posts! Thanks for visiting www.phillipedwardallen.comThursday, November 1, 2007
She Smokes, She Goes, and She has Gas
No I am not talking about Jennifer... well she has some of the above.... nevermind. Ok so we STINK at posting. A lot has happened since our last post.... I have been asked to Blog about the latest addition to our family. A nice, ok not so nice, scooter.
Scooters are all the rage here. They are really the best way to get around. But since they are soo popular they are all over the place. So it is a bit hard to drive, worse then NY but with scooters and cars mixed together. Our little scooter was actually an opportunity for a local missionary to get to know someone better. We met him through one of our contacts here and he knew a guy who sold scooters. So we went and looked at scooters. A few days later since we really needed a scooter (jennifer was driving 12 miles a day to work on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday), we bought one. We found one in our price range and with a big enough engine to get us around (it is hard for smaller engined scooters to get up the mountains nearby). But like most cars we own, it was a clunker. It smokes a lot and it is a sight that causes sore eyes but it gets around. We paid around 13,000 for it. That is New Taiwanese Dollars where 1 US dollar equals 32 NTD. We will try to post some pictures of it later!
Scooters are all the rage here. They are really the best way to get around. But since they are soo popular they are all over the place. So it is a bit hard to drive, worse then NY but with scooters and cars mixed together. Our little scooter was actually an opportunity for a local missionary to get to know someone better. We met him through one of our contacts here and he knew a guy who sold scooters. So we went and looked at scooters. A few days later since we really needed a scooter (jennifer was driving 12 miles a day to work on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday), we bought one. We found one in our price range and with a big enough engine to get us around (it is hard for smaller engined scooters to get up the mountains nearby). But like most cars we own, it was a clunker. It smokes a lot and it is a sight that causes sore eyes but it gets around. We paid around 13,000 for it. That is New Taiwanese Dollars where 1 US dollar equals 32 NTD. We will try to post some pictures of it later!
posted by Phillip and Jennifer # 9:36 PM 
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