If you recognize the slippers above it may give you a feeling of nostalgia, at least it does for me. They are the famous Taiwanese 藍白拖 that are so important they have a Wikipedia entry in Chinese. Now that summer is here and school is out I can once again wear them, and get odd looks from Hoosiers.

I haven’t posted for a while, because of the hectic end of the semester. I will now be a senior! I am moving out of my apartment and heading north to Fort Wayne until school starts back up in the fall. Here’s the catch, I won’t have immediate access to the Internet which is going to be interesting, as I’ve taken surfing the web every day for granted.

I was at the post office today mailing a textbook I sold on Amazon when the guy next to me was being explained how to track his package online. The guy replied, “What? Online?” Then the clerk said, “You know, the web.” Everyone around watched in awe as the man thought it over for a while he asked, “You mean like computers and stuff? I don’t got a computer.” What a wake up call. Sometimes I forget the Internet used to not exist. The guy looked a little like this:

For those of you who stumble across my website while I’m gone I recommend checking out the resources page for a list of links related to advertising and design in China and Taiwan. Also I strongly recommend checking out Alltop - China. I will be back in the fall, eager to get online and continue posting about design and advertising in China and tweaking my website. I need to fix some things, like the fact that my site looks like crap in Internet Explorer.

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