A house in Tainan

As promised, out BnB friends helped us find a job.  The AirBnb has new people booked for tonight se we need to get a job and relocate to a new place. Yesterday our hosts introduced us to a guy from Colombian named Sabastian.  He has been in Taiwan for 6 years and is quite the entrepreneur.  Among his many endeavors, today he is wearing the hat of English teacher recruiter.  He is trying to fix us up with a job at The Sesame Street School located in a nearby village. Today he arrived on his motorbike and informs us that even before meeting with our prospective employers, an employer sponsored group dinner is scheduled for next Saturday.  So what does that mean?  Is Barbara hired before even meeting the employer???  As usual, cultural differences abound. 

Sebastian carried us on his motorbike to a restaurant where we met Larry whose family owns The Sesame Street School. Nothing was finalized at the meeting, except that when Larry informed his mother, Nancy, that we had no place to stay, Nancy offered us her apartment in Tainan.  So now we have a woman whom we have never met, inviting us to live in her home, on the recommendation of Sebastian whom we just met, who vetted us on the word of our Airbnb hosts who have known us for 3 days. Larry gave us a  key and we now have the house all to ourselves. Neither Nancy nor her son are even staying here with us. There is cash everywhere, what looks like important papers, and all sorts of personal belongings lying about. I guess living on an island provides its own security  They figure we can not get off the island undetected so what is our potential harm?  Anyway, the 5th floor apartment with no elevator is ok and we are able to pirate off a neighbor's internet.  As usual, Barbara and Arin have only one key between them so are virtually attached at the hip.

Larry came by tonight and took us to the school where Arin and Barbara both gave a demonstration lesson.  We have no idea if Nancy liked our lesson as there was no feedeback.  There appear to be no other Westerners working at the school and maybe not even in the town, which is off the beaten path.  The staff are very nice and I think we get dinner every night.  Today they offered McDonalds and fried rice.  The school is actually in a town called Hunei.  It is 20 minutes to the beach.  That is the important part..