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[canadian-girl]

Just thought i'd share my excitement (cant sleep...heehee). I leave in 5 days! VROOOOM! Does anyone else remember what it was like the first time they moved overseas? I think my friends are more emotional then I am! lol....I have a nice entourage of people coming to the airport with me to say goodbye...they all love me! heehee

[matchstick_man]

Yeah, good luck. It is a big step going to a country where your native language is not spoken. I still laugh about my first phone call in South Korea which was my first overseas port of call. The sleeping thing was difficult.

[Big John Stud]

The first week of being in a new country with a completely different culture is so stimulating. To make up for the language berrier, I focused a lot of attention on body language. In fact I got so good at reading body language when I finally did visit the country I was born in I could easily tell when people were lying. Some of my friends would even ask me how I could tell when they were not being completely truthful.

Everything I did I did with complete awareness! Walking down a street, I would look at everything and listen to every sound. That was back in 1996.

Good luck to you!

[patchwork]

i don't find taipei very foreign at all - it's just like toronto

[Fortigurn]