Hello, this is Chisa from Borderless House.
On 18th of December, we have hosted 【Borderless House X’MAS Party 2016】!!!
We would like to thank everybody for joining us!
This year the party was held based on the theme: “hirogaru, tsunagaru” (directly translated as “binding together and widening”),
meaning it’s an opportunity for all the guests ad friends to get together,
regardless of nationality, language and which houses the guests are from.
Here is how the event went:
The party was held at an Italian restaurant in Shibuya -the warm and cozy atmosphere welcomed all our guests!
We were the MC -thank you all for your patience!
The party began with a warm up game before the toast; “Hi five self introduction game!”
The guests need to do hi five with 3 people when their eyes meet, and introduce themselves
(name, nationality, which house he/she is from, hobby and etc.)
After the self introduction is done with 3 people, the guests are handed their first drinks and a BINGO card.
The toast was called as follows: “To the many encouters of tonight! Kanpai (=cheers)!”
Looks like the guests have warmed up at the first free talk session,
and are feeling much more comfortable mingling with the ones that just met!
The guests were to fill in the blanks by writing in each others’ names.
Then the next game was the highlight of the event: BINGO!
Everybody was all pumped up to become winners!
After the 7 winners were chosen, there was a lottery to decide which winner is going to win which prize”
The guy in the middle won the booby prize…(=a throat coat candy, swabs and a sushi key chain)
He won the second prize…(= tickets to Yokohama Cosmo World for 4 people)
I hope he can go with all his housemates!
And last but not least, he was the first prize winner!
Congratulations on winning 1 month free rent ticket!!!
“I will throw a big house party and everybody here is invited!” was the comment he made on the spot 🙂
Let’s look forward to the party then? Omedeto gozaimasu!
The party ended in a great success, thanks to all our fellow tenants and their friends for joining us!
There was also an after party which half of the guests have gone to! Awesome!
We are more than happy that the party became a wonderful opportunity for our tenants from different houses to get to know each other,
and most of all, to have a merry Christmas together!
We hope to see you at the next event!
Thank you once again to all the guests who made it to the party,
and merry Christmas and a happy new year to all!
We had the dinner and enjoyed getting to know each other.
Everyone was welcoming and friendly!
Hope everyone got a nice gift.
We also prepared some gift for the winners of Bingo!
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After the games, it was free time for you guys to talk with anyone!
Let’s take pictures, exchange contact information and keep in touch! ^_<
Took happy group photos with all participants!
Thanks for join us! Hope everyone enjoyed it and join us at our next event!
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Please check our fanpage on Facebook for more photos!
→【Borderless House Facebook Page】← 
(Ran is a left one ^^ with Fuji Mountain and his new roommates)
Q1. How was your exchange?
My trip was great. Last time I was in Japan I was mostly limited to one area. This time I used the money saved on housing to purchase a JR Pass. I started my trip in Sapporo Hokkaido. I stayed there for a couple of nights before taking a sleeper bus to Hakodate. The next morning my JR Pass started and I took the Shinkansen to Tokyo to start my stay in the share house. From Tokyo I was able to travel to Nikko, Kiso Valley, Kofu, Kyoto/Nara, Kaurizawa, Niigata, and Fujigoko mostly to go hiking. Coming from the sweaty jungles of Taiwan, It was really refreshing to be able to breathe the cool air and see all the autumn colors.
Q2.What is the most memorable episode?
Going up Mt. Mitutouge/Kinashiyama with my housemates. From the side we started on the hike was supposed to be around 3-4 km to the top with an ascent of 1700m. It was an exhausting few hours to make it to the top. But the view of Mt. Fuji and the surrounding area was worth it. By the time we made it down the other side the sun was setting.
Q3. Do you have any comments who consider?
My housemates were a fun bunch to talk to and made my trip more enjoyable. I really do wish I was able to stay longer than the week and a half I was there.
Let’s see photos he shared below!!
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(Hakodate)
(Sapporo)
(Tokyo Dome)
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He went to so many places during his trip in Japan! And which also make us feel very happy and very enjoyable when we read his wonderful sharing!
He used the money saved on housing to purchase a JR Pass which makes us feel very glad that we could support our tenants’ trip.
Free House Exchange program can provide more opportunities for our tenants to meet and stay with local people in the country and have a real cultural experience!!
Since our houses are in Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, you can stay one of our houses for FREE!!
✫ If you are interested in our program, please don’t feel hesitate to join the program!
http://www.borderless-house.com/houseexchange/houseexchange_form/
✫ You can check the details of this program on our website blow.
http://www.borderless-house.com/houseexchange/ 
There are many types of houses in Taipei.
※We will upload regarding the house type later.
If you would like to live by yourself, it would cost around 8,000 NTD-15,000 NTD in general. You can find the house which would cost around 5,000 NTD/month but I recommend you the house over 8,000 NTD thinking about the cleaness and difficulties of negotiation with Taiwanese landlord.
About the rent for living in BORDERLESS HOUSE, the information is as below 😉
-Private room: 12,500~15,000 NTD
-2 Females room: 9,000~9,500 NTD
-2 Males room: 9,000~9,500 NTD
-3 Females room: 7,900~8,800 NTD
-3 Males room: 7,900~8,800 NTD
-4 Females room: 6,900~7,900 NTD
-6 Females room: 6,700 NTD
You can get more information by setting 
The electricity fee is expensive in Taipei. It exceeds 1,000 NTD/month in summer period.
Water is cheaper and it costs around 200-300 NTD/month.
If your house has a kitchen, gas fee costs around 200-300 NTD/month.
In Borderless House, utility fee is 800 NTD/month including electricity, water, TV, gas and internet fee! (The electric power consumption in summer period would be high, so utility fee for May. to Oct. will be 1,200 NTD.)
If you install the internet in your house, it costs around 1,000 NTD/month. (Some landlords kindly include internet fee into the rent.)
You can use tethering by your cell phone and it costs around 800 NTD/month. But some tenants just buy a prepaid card in order to save money and you can get it in around 300NTD.
The tansportation system in Taipei is very convenient and cheap. An one-way metro ticket for the Taipei Metro (MRT) within Taipei City costs about 20NTD. There are also rental bikes (called “U-bikes”)
provided by the city where the first 30min costs 5NTD. As you can see you won’t spend much money on transportation.
Initial costs for daily toiletries such as toilet paper, hair shampoo and hair conditioner might be high but once you have them you will get along with the above mentioned amount of money.
Moreover, in some drug stores there are special offers where you get two products for a price of one, so again, sharing with your housemate will help you safe money!
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