A lot has happened since I last posted in December. Since May, I have a new job and live in Hsinchu, in the north of Taiwan, instead of Kaohsiung, in the south of Taiwan. I’m back into the IT and networking field, which is nice, and in many ways it’s not as intense as life as a network admin at KCOnline was for me, which is even nicer. I’m finding that I definitely miss aspects of that job though too. My job at Accton (http://www.accton.com) entails writing manuals for network equipment, so far exclusively for ethernet switches. Accton is also involved in 802.11 wireless and VoIP equipment, so I’m sure I’ll get to play with some of that in the future too.
Now that I’m here in Hsinchu, I miss Kaohsiung and all my friends there, to be sure, but am loving where I’m at now too. Making friends here in Hsinchu has been a bit slow mainly because of the timing of my move, but that’s drastically improved in the last 6 weeks. I’ve been able to get involved with the youth group, called God Squad, at my church, Victory English Fellowship. What a privilege! These kids are absolutely amazing. Almost all of the kids are ABCs (American Born Chinese) because their parents studied and/or worked in the States. Most of the parents are now working at jobs in the Science Park, like me (though most of them are degreed engineers of some sort..). I never figured I’d end up being able to use my status as an MK/TCK/expat for ministry like this, but here I am, and it’s certainly been great so far.
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