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What an International Halloween Party!!

We had a Halloween party with our tenants last weekend and it was pretty fun!

Everyone dressed as vampires, zombies, witches and so many characters.

We were having dinner, playing games and dancing together!

What an unforgettable night!

Let’s check it out!

Our tenants started checking in! So excited!

Enjoy the party!

Everyone got a pizza box and free drink!

People from different countries had a Halloween party together!

We had six teams!

Your teammates are from different houses, so you could make more friends!

They were gonna play games and win the reward!

Guess which team was the winner in this struggle?

They were trying to throw off the wig by their head!

Take care, don’t sprain your neck. Haha

Acting like Chinese zombie and trying to tear off the stickers on the other’s body!

Everyone was crazy while playing games. XD

 After the party, everyone exchanged their LIND ID and took group photos!

Hope everyone enjoyed our party!

We’re looking forward to seeing you at our next party.

Thanks for all of you. <3

Group photo with all participants

Lovely Borderless staff.

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FREE HOUSE EXCHANGE Abby Taipei Tokyo

Hi, this is BORDERLESS HOUSE in Taiwan! One of our tenants, Abby from BORDERLESS HOUSE TAIPEI have visited Tokyo from August 31 to September 7 for 8 days with House Exchange program. She stayed in BORDERLESS HOUSE Shimokita1 house.   What brought her to attend this program is because she studied abroad in Tokyo for 11 months last year!! So this summer she wanted to travel to Japan to see her host family and college friends. She also wanted to visit her favorite places and ate her favorite Japanese foods again! Actually, when she left Tokyo last year she thought she would never have the chance to come back, so she thought this is a really special opportunity for her. ♥ Her introduction is below!! (She is so sweet that she gave us her introduction typed both in English and Japanese !)   :;;::;;:*:;;::;;:*ﾟ:;;::;;:*:;;::;;:*ﾟ:;;::;;:*:;;::;;:*ﾟ:;;::;;:*:;;::;;:*ﾟ:;;::;;:*:;;::;;:*ﾟ:;;::;;:*:;;::;;:* ☺ Abby’s Self-introduction I’m a 22 year old girl from America. I have been studying Japanese for about 4.5 years and would consider myself to be at the advanced level; my Chinese is entirely self-taught and still beginner. I love learning languages, traveling, and talking to people from other countries, so I’m especially excited to live in Borderless House in Taipei while I’m studying in Taiwan! My other interests include reading, watching movies, outdoor activities and horseback riding. ————— 自己紹介させていただきます。22歳のアメリカ人の女性です。 日本語は4年間半くらい勉強していますが、中国語は4月から独学しているのでまだ初心者です。私は他の国の人と交流したり、旅行したりするのが大好きで、特にこれから台北の Borderless House に住むことをとても楽しみにしています！他の趣味は小説を読むことや映画を見ること、アウトドア、乗馬などです。 今度は台湾の留学が始まる前に、私が日本に留学していた頃のホストファミリーと大学の友達に会うために日本に行きたいと思っています。 :;;::;;:*:;;::;;:*ﾟ:;;::;;:*:;;::;;:*ﾟ:;;::;;:*:;;::;;:*ﾟ:;;::;;:*:;;::;;:*ﾟ:;;::;;:*:;;::;;:*ﾟ:;;::;;:*:;;::;;:* She loves meeting new people from different cultures, after she visited Tokyo again and hanged out while chatting and learning about other tenants’ cultures and languages. We had an interview with her!! Let’s check her feedback after she came back from Tokyo!!! ➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤     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) ➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤ 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/
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Interview for David, who enjoyed socializing across the borders of his own house, even with staff!

Hi, This is Kana from the Borderless House marketing team. We interviewed David from Machiya1 House this time! As he became close to the staff members as well, let’s hear his point of view.

“I got open-minded after living in a share house” – What kind of person is he?

– David, what made you come to Japan and to live in share house?

I had Japanese friends originally, and wanted to change my life a little bit. So, I came here last September(2015). This is my forth visit. I was going to Akamonkai, I chose Machiya1 house since it is walk-able distance and near the station. I looked at Oak House too, but this house in Borderless House seemed closer to school and convenient. Then, I decided whether I live in private room or share room, talking with staff. It was my first time for me to live in a share house, but I got open-minded. When you share a house with others, you understand different cultures and have to be kind and aware of helping each others.

“I could make friends in other houses thanks to staff”

– Since you visited our office often, I think you became closer to staff! What’s the staff like to you?

I think the staff is good! They are friendly and good support. Every time I make payment at your office, I talked with staff. (We were surprised that David became more fluent in Japanese every time he comes to office!) When there were problems with Air conditioner or Internet, Borderless House responded in few hours, and fixed soon. Actually, It was me who touched the device for Internet accidentally, though… I joined Halloween Party held by staff last year too, and it was fun. Also, when there were parties at houses near Machiya1 house, one of staff invited me. That’s why I could make friends with people in Machiya2 house and Kitasenju House. It was good that staff helped me in such a way. Though I didn’t talk Japanese so much in here since housemates were good at English, I talked mainly in Japanese with people in Kitasenju House. ▼BBQ with people in Kitasenju House

Perfect house for “people who are not into party but want to talk with people

– What kind of people do you recommend this house to?

Machiya1 house is more for people who are not into party, but want to talk to people, having their own life. This house is perfect for such people. Also, Machiya is really convenient. There are many lines at Machiya station including Chiyoda line, and Machiya1 house is close to station. Besides, there are many food shops in Machiya. By the way, my favorite is “Jirorian(ジロリアン 町屋店)”.(※The ramen shop related to famous ramen chain shops”Jiro”) You can eat a lot with at cheap. ▼Last day at Machiya1 House. Seeing off by a housemate If you want to put importance on living comfortable and having your own life, not only enjoying international exchange, I see Machiya1 House is good environment to live in! Details of Machiya1 House Share House in Ueno, Asakusa, Akihabara area Ask staff to introduce share houses  
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Language Exchange with Global Overseas Adoptees Link

Language Exchange with Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link!

Hello, this is Borderless House Seoul! As you might already know, there are three Tenants-Only Programs only for the tenants who are staying in Borderless House. From those programs, we would like to share one of our latest orientation we had with a member of an organization which is called Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link! 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!

* Tenants Only Program

If you need more information for language exchange program, or if you want to apply for this program, please refer the link from the below for contacting staff of Borderless House! http://www.borderless-house.com/languageexchange/
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Borderless House Picnic Party in Taiwan 2016

It was long overdue!! In this hot summer, BORDERLESS HOUSE in Taipei hold a picnic party event for our tenants on 29th of May, 2016 !!

The first of BORDERLESS HOUSE event in 2016 was picnic at the Huashan Creative Park.

Lots of our tenants from different houses joined us. We also invited people who was interested in making friends from all over the world!! We drank beers, enjoyed tasty food, played games and listened to music. We spent such a wonderful time together. ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و 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~~~
    We prepared some songs and pictures of movies and anime for our tenants to guess where is the song or character from. Which team will win this game!?!?   Next game~!!! Do you know what were they making? a ( 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 http://www.borderless-house.com/tw/
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Living costs in Taipei

Hello, this is Borderless House! I’m sure we can’t know the real life of foreign countries, and one of the important point is living cost. How much do we need to live in Taipei for a month? Today, I’ll introduce how much it would be cost for a month in Taipei(1 month living cost in Taipei)!

■ Rent in 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 Search Preference on the website!

■ Utility fee (Water, gas, electricity)

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.)

■Phone / Internet fee

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.

■Food budget

One of the big expence of living cost is a food budget. There are many restaurant in Taipei and it’s really cheap. Many of tenants spend around 150-300 NTD/day for food&drink. Break fast：around 50 NTD Lunch：50-100 NTD Dinner：50-100 NTD Drink：20-40 NTD

■Transportation

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.

■Toiletries

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
Leisure Activities approx. 1000-3000NTD/month This depends on how much you go out with your friends. A famous leisure activity in Taipei called “shrimp fishing” for example costs around 300NTD per hour. At Taiwanese taverns called “熱炒” (re chao) you can get plates for 100NTD, so count in around 500NTD for a dinner. We also hold seasonal events for all the tenants in Borderless House, which you can have fun and meet new friends with a low budget! Check our events review below: –Go hiking together~enjoy the fresh air on Jinmian Mountatin! –Sharing your Stories in our Christmas event with our tenants! –Everyone was able to bond and become closer! – Board Games Event ■Conclusion Living costs per month in Taipei is around 24,000 NTD – 30,000 NTD.
-Rent 8000-15000 NTD
-Water, Gas, Electricity fee 1000-1700 NTD
-Internet/phone 800-1000 NTD
– Food 4500-9000 NTD
-Transportation fee 800 NTD
-Toiletries 500 NTD
-Leisure Activities 1000-3000 NTD
You can fully enjoy your life in Taipei for 24,000-30,000 NTD/month and if you go to local restaurant or shops, you can save more money! Let’s enjoy your life in Taipei with Taiwanese and people from all over the world. ⇒Share House list of Borderless House in Taipei