After our big meeting was over I stayed in town. I have tacked 4 days vacation onto the end so that I could take the Open Water scuba certification course. Today was day three. This a dive boat almost exactly like the one I was on, anchored in the cove where I dove.
Day one was classroom with videos and tests. Day two was Continue reading »
Hopefully Jackie will post about this soon. I am back in Taiwan, while he remains in Thailand – taking a scuba diving certification course. He forgot to put sun-block on his bald head the first day in the sun. Ouch! – Thus – describing Jackie as a “red head”. 
Things are beginning to slow down a little. Hopefully we can start to get some rest 
Taiwan is rewriting some of its history books used in public schools. This has not been missed by mainland. Here is an interesting article – follow the link.
A February 1 editorial in the PRC-controlled China Daily began: “History is made by man but not man-made. Such a truth foretells the doomed Taipei secessionist attempt to rewrite the island’s history through promoting pro-independence culture.”
This afternoon there were no activities 
. . . . Ahhhh – rest!
