Or planning to start your Chinese class in Taiwan?
Before that, we have a few interesting things what to let you know before you come to Taiwan!
1. Convenient store everywhere! (7-11, FamilyMart, Hi-Life, OK…)
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You’ll find out the convenient stores are one of the best things in Taiwan once you arrived!
Convenient stores in Taiwan are not just a store for junk food or beverage, you can basically do everything at there, ship packages, pay your bills, buy tickets (train, concert, exhibition…etc.), print documents, call taxi, ATM…and so much more!
And these 24H convenient stores are everywhere, seriously, EVERYWHERE! You can even find 2 or 3 convenient stores on one street! It’s your best neighbor ever!
2. Musical garbage trucks.
Living in Taiwan, we got some tips here for you to deal the household garbage.
Most of families here don’t have trash bins next to their house. Instead, garbage trucks drives through streets at night with playing Beethoven’s Fur Elise loudly to alert people their arrival, and you need to carry your trash bags (If you living in Taipei, you need to use the city-approved trash bags), and throw them into the trucks by yourself.
And you will find out the time of garbage trucks coming, is also the time of social gathering, because people come out earlier and chat with neighbors while they waiting!
3. Earthquakes and Typhoons.
Earthquakes and Typhoons are 2 things you will experience in Taiwan!
Taiwan located in a seismically active zone, the average number of perceivable earthquake is about 1,000 per year. (not to mention the un-perceivable earthquake is more than 18,500 per year.)
And if you visit Taiwan during July to September, you will probably hit the typhoon season, prepare some foods and save some clean water is what you need to do before it.
But don’t worry! You’ll also find out Taiwanese handle it very well, most of buildings in Taiwan are prepared for earthquakes and strong wind of typhoon!
4. Bubble tea.
Taiwanese LOVES bubble tea! You can find bubble tea shops nearly EVERY corner of Taiwan’s streets, and it’s a part of Taiwanese culture now!
If you planning to visit Taiwan soon, put bubble tea on your “must-try” list!
5. Friendly people!
Even not every Taiwanese can speak fluent English, but you’ll still find out how friendly are of Taiwanese!
Most of Taiwanese are defiantly welling to help if you need (sometimes you don’t even ask for help)! Finding a restaurant, point you a way to your hotel (or just take you to there with their scooter)!
And if you got chance to visit south of Taiwan, the people from south are even friendlier, most last generation can’t speak English, but they still give you smile, and try their best to help! You’ll definitely feel welcoming here!
6. Kingdom of Scooters!
Do you know Taiwan has the highest scooter density in Asia? The population of Taiwan is 23 million, but the amount of scooter is over 14 million! Almost every family has at least one scooter!
Taiwan is a small island, and scooter can take you to almost everywhere in Taiwan, especially when you travel out of Taipei City (Taipei has every complete public transport system), you’ll find out how convenient it is! And if you planning to travel around Taiwan, scooter is a good idea!
But remember to prepare your driving license and international license before you rent a scooter in Taiwan!
Hello everybody!! This is Yuya as House manager at Borderless House.
It is the Halloween season from last saturday, people are celebrating Halloween !!
Off course, we are not missing this BIG event.
Guess what!! We held Borderless Halloween Party last week !!
Today, we are going to tell you about Borderless House Halloween Party.
This is the Biggest International Event !! Borderless House Special Halloween party
It has been 2 years since we had a Halloween event, so we rent the special place called 『in the house 』to have private event!!
There were 90 people from 22 countries joined the Halloween Party including the staffs.
Also our staff wore the Halloween costume, but the tenants were wearing much nicer costumes!! They are so into the Halloween!!
The professional make up!! You can be the Halloween look. The make up was done by our tenant!!
The stage and foods are greeting ready …
But something is missing… SO there was not enough fear !!!
Halloween is known as the ghost festival, so We can not celebrate Halloween without Zombies .
But …. if you look at the corner of the hall, Someone is making zombies and they are increasing so fast !!!!
Yes !! This is the one of the highlight of Halloween Party is make up booth which you can have Halloween makeup on by Make-up artist.
Also, this booth is taken care of one of our Borderless House tenants named K kun!
He is a hair stylist and also has been doing make up to famous artists. He will be studying abroad to get more skills in this winter.
He has been living in one of the Borderless House in Shinjuku form the beginning. So, we asked him if he wants to do something to make last great memory in the Halloween event ….
K yeah but it was so much fun staying in Borderless House, I already miss that. I will definitely want to live here when I come back to Japan.
S We are glad to hear that!! By the way, K kun Would you like to make last great memory in this event ??
K Halloween Party !? sounds great !! I would do makeup.
That is why he was doing make up for us!! You are the best K kun!!
And, surprisingly, his Teacher, who is a professional make-up artist came this event from LA!!! She did make up for us for a hour !!
There were a lot of Zombies in this Party.
There is no language barrier !! Borderless House Special contents
This Halloween event has not only the fancy patty hall or make up booth !!
Borderless House is multicultural shared house, so we had some special contents that give you opportunity to talk to other people.
Who are your neighbors?? Making Borderless House map and new friends around your house !!
The first trick is this !!
This game is that we make the event hall as Tokyo map and people try to make Borderless house map there.
This is quite sudden, but
Everyday you go to school or work and come back to home……
Have you ever wish to have variety of friends and opportunity to make friends around Tokyo ???
This game is the great opportunity to get to know people from other Borderless House and also see which Borderless House they are coming from.
The rule is simple!! We gave everyone a name tag which has number on it, so you just look for people who have the same number as you do.
At the beginning of the game, everyone was confused about this game, but after telling them that they are neighbors, they were surprised about it.
After this game, they try to make next plans with neighbors!!!
This is THE Borderless House, right ??
Communication is about your heart!! Let’s make mummy
Before we decided to do this game, Staff Takuya who wore Banana costume in Halloween Party said ……..
“Everyone wants to be a mummy at least once in his/ her life “
The next contents is this !!! Toilet paper mummy !!
Let’s make mummy!!!
The rule : we are making some groups ( each group has 6 people ) and give the 2 toilet paper to the groups. After start sign, you just make mummy !!
The winner will be the group that makes 2 awesome mummies, and will get the special Prize !!
There are people who want to be mummies, and people who want to make mummies.
Language is no problem in this game !! All you need is trying to understand people’s mind and good communication with your team.
And …… The winner was the group that has staff Riko!!!
NO WAY ！！！！！
The first prize is a projector!? The best SNS award will be …….
The annual Borderless House SNS award, we choose the person for this award in this year as well !!
This year, we had two SNS prize !!
One is most like prize which is the persons who gets most like on instagram
Two is the best dresser prize that the person who wears the greatest costume in Halloween Party.
Most like prize will get projector, and the best dresser prize will get StarBucks card !!
So, we would like to show you the winners here
BUT, Please check out the Borderless Instagram below !!
There were also a lot of people who wear great costumes and post photos on Instagram, so please check that out as well !!
Diversity of nationality and language !! Borderless House is THE only House that give you the opportunity to get to know people from all over the world
The Halloween Party is finally coming to a close …
End of the party, we gathered everybody at the stage and took a group photo !!
At beginning of the party, people are nervous about getting to know new people, but after the party, they became so close each other !!
We will have more parties which bring connections between tenants in the future!
We assure that you will learn not only language but also Japanese local culture with your Japanese housemates in Borderless House.
Why don’t you try us and make your stay more enjoyable？
We are looking forward to meeting you again at Christmas Party !!
PS: After party, everybody made plan to go to Izakaya together or their house to continue the party !! THIS is also Borderless House, You can make a lot of friends in Borderless House event after !!
