Friday, 29 October 2010

Would you like to help? A chance to take action!

Hello Good People of TAIWAN ISSUES in ACTION
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TRANSLATOR Volunteers Wanted: Chinese to English
No experience necessary
Interested? Please keep reading below...
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As you may know, one of our new members, Jiali, lived and worked in Cambodia for 2 years (2006-7). She's written a book about her time there. It includes her lovely drawings (see jpeg attachment). 

She wants to make the book bilingual so that her foreign friends can also read about her interesting experiences. Would you like to help translate from Chinese to English? After you translate, I'll check your English and make suggestions so it's 100% correct and natural. Have a look at the sample chapter Jiali's attached for us.

Here's more information from Jiali directly:
 
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Thank you very much in advance for any help you can give me in translating my book.
These chapters are my stories and experience in Cambodia.
My friend wants to publish this book for supporting me on doing volunteering work.
As I mentioned before, I worked with BSDA (a NPO owned by Cambodian monks) for three years now.
www.bsda-cambodia.org
I do fund raising each year, most of the funds go to them.

So, the profit of this book is also used for people who need help.

To thank your great help, I will have your name to be printed as a translator on the chapter you translate.
And I'll also write "Taiwan Issues in Action" on the book as a supporting group.

I need about 10 to 20 translators.
If you're interested in this project, even it's your first time to do the translation.
Please feel free to contact me at 0975-032-080,
jialichen.taiwan@yahoo.com or p0731ucr@hotmail.com

You'll get one chapter first. And if you're willing to do another chapter, I'll give you another one.
Please see the attached chapter. Most of the chapters are short, only one page. The longest one is two pages.
I hope the translation won't take you too much time, around 1 or 2 days...
The deadline is Nov. 6.

Your great help is appreciated!!!

Looking forward to hear from you soon...


JiaLi and Lynn
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Claudia would like to share with you her visit to Aowanda, Nantou

Aowanda

If you tired of living in the urban jungle, and you haven’t got enough time to go abroad, Nantou in central Taiwan is a good choice.

Aowanda is a small village in Nantou. It is famous for its autumn colours. It only takes 2 hours to get from Taipei to Aowanda. But don’t go there on a weekend or holiday—you’ll just leave one crowded city and go to another! 

In autumn, the whole forest park turns from green to red. It’s really hard to believe that in only 2 hours, we can enter a whole new world. Beautiful sunshine!

Thursday, 28 October 2010

Welcome to our new site-- a Blog, actually!

Hi everyone,

Welcome to our new site-- a Blog, actually!

Updated 20110208:
We could now send auto-notifications by simply setting our Google Group's email address as the default contact in two tabs in "Settings": "Comments" and "Email & Mobile."

TIiA
















Monday, 25 October 2010

Let's Go_CNEX Documentary Film Festival



Hello Good People,

This is a message of a really cool film festival that a former student of Lynn sent to our group.

Let's go, shall we?

TIiA

Sunday, 17 October 2010

Sat 23 Oct Session Details

(Part Two) UPDATES with: 
Session report of 23 Oct 2010




(Part One) Announcement of the Session:

Hello Good People!

Day: Sat 23 Oct
Time: 10:30 am - 12:30pm
Place: a room in the building next to ShinKong Mitsukoshi Dept store
opposite Taipei Main Station. (The same venue as the session with Jiali talking
about Cambodia and the Marshall Islands) Room number to be announced asap.
Topic: Talking with Visting Foreigners about Taiwan (Part 2)

You're invited to prepare a short talk about a place or topic related
to Taiwan, keeping in mind the points discussed at the Part 1 of this
session on Sept 11. (See session report!) Even if you didn't attend
Part 1 on Sept 11, you're most welcome to come to this session. If
you want to prepare a short talk, great! If not, that's OK--we'll need
you as audience to give feedback to the "tour guides"!

Could you please RSVP by Thursday 23 Oct, 6pm if you plan to attend. Thanks...

Hope to see you this coming Saturday--watch this space for the exact
room number to come to!

:) Lynn

Thursday, 14 October 2010

20101016 Let's Go《Rite Makes Right—Judicial Rituals in Postwar Taiwan》

Hello Good People,

Let's go together to the event arranged by the Lung Yintai Cultural
Foundation (龍應台文化基金會), shall we?

Please go to the following webpage for further details:
http://www.civictaipei.org/activity/meat/203.html

Lynn is hoping to go even though she'll probably arrive a bit late and
have to leave a bit early due to teaching...

Cheers,
TIiA