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!
(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)
(Nara with cute deer)
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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/ 
Check BORDERLESS HOUSE in Taipei>>
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Q1. How was your trip?
My trip to Japan was great! I spent a week in Tokyo traveling around to my favorite places and visiting friends I made when I studied abroad in Japan last year. Living in a Borderless House in Japan allowed me to make new friends and explore some new parts of Tokyo that I had never visited before.
Q2.What is the most memorable episode?
Even though I was only in Japan for a week, I had the chance to go out with my housemates to a local okonomiyaki restaurant. Okonomiyaki is one of my favorite Japanese foods, so I was very happy that I got to eat such delicious local food while getting to know other Borderless House residents. Some of my housemates had never visited America or Taiwan, so it was fun to share our stories and experiences.
Q3.How do you feel about the Free House Exchange program?
I would recommend the Borderless House Exchange program to anyone interested in travel. I think it’s the best way to have a great living arrangement while visiting an unfamiliar country, and a good way to make friends with both local and other international people who have similar interests.
Q4. How do you feel after you decided to go Japan again?
I was very grateful to have the opportunity to go back to Japan and visit all my favorite places again. If it weren’t for the Borderless House Exchange program, I might not have been able to find a way to visit Japan. If I have another chance to travel while I’m living in Borderless House, I would definitely consider the House Exchange program again.
(She sent us so many food pics haha)
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I am also very happy that she can go visiting Tokyo again, 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/ 
If you want to 
We normally match a tenant to other tenant for Language Exchange.
But this time, we had a chance to work together with Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link!
So we are going to participate one of their famous and important program
holding for adoptees, ‘Motherland Tour’ and also,
we are going to match our tenants who are interested in Language Exchange
to their members who are interested in this program either.
Before sharing this wonderful experience with Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link,
we would like to introduce this organization briefly to all of you.
Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link (G.O.A.’L) is an organization founded in Seoul, South Korea.
Since it is founded by Adoptee and founded for Adoptee,
they are offering many services for adoptee who is searching for their birth family
such as Birth family search assistance/ translation & interpretation,
visa procedure and Social gathering etc.
And this time, we had an orientation for Language Exchange Program
between our tenant Minkyeong and Ellyn from Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link.
Minkyeong is currently staying in one of share houses in Borderless,
and Ellyn is from USA and currently working as a English teacher in Seoul.
Minkyeong has an experience of staying in USA for her exchange semester in University,
so they had conversation to share their experience of staying in USA.
Also, Ellyn had shared her hilarious experience in Seoul for us.
It was their first time to meet each other, but there were so friendly!
They had about 3 hours of orientation in Borderless House Seoul office,
and they said they will have a dinner together in a few days.
We hope them improve their language skill and be a good friend for each other!
In the beginning of the party, we ate and drank. Let’s get ready to play games 😀
Here are all cute members who joined our event!!
After picnic time, every member had got to know each other.
Then, our first game is coming~~~
Next game~!!! Do you know what were they making?
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( The answer is ” Taipei 101″ !!! )
Last game was our group activity!! Let’s hold our hand and “get the electric shock”!!!
Reward for Winners!!! Congratulations !!!
All of Borderless House staffs are really appreciate everyone who enjoyed our event!! We couldn’t have such a nice picnic event without you!!
All participants had enjoyed to talk with people from other houses during whole event!
You can meet with and make friends with a lot of people from other houses in our event!
Why not live in our share house and make friends with Taiwanese and people from all over the world!
International share house in Taipei – BORDERLESS HOUSE TAIPEI
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!
■Leisure Activities
