bus to the airport

(This page is under construction !!!)

If you want to go to the airport, you can take Kamalan bus to Taipei main bus station. Then, you can find the bus to airport there. There are two bus companies serving the bus to the (Taoyuan) airport.

• Dayou (大有)
  Inside the building of Taipei main bus station, you can find NO.2  Da You bus company and it’s just right next to Kamalan bus comapny. Buy the bus ticket to airport at Da You bus company and it serves from 5 AM to around 8:30 PM. The bus comes in around 30 mins.

•  Guoguang(國光) 
  Here is the other option. You can walk around 5 mins from Taipei main bus station to Guoguang bus company which is across from the Shinkong Mitsukoshi department store (the one around Taipei train station). Go to the East station of Guoguang. You can see its sign written in Chinese(往桃園機場) and English (to Taoyuan airport. It serves from 5 AM to 11 PM. The bus comes in around 20 mins.

At last, here is the Chinese you might need. 一張到機場的票(I want a ticket to the airport) yi zhang dao4 ji chang3 de piao4 (the number is the the tone).

Seeing the doctor (III) – Making an online appointment (instructions)

1st step:  Go the website of the hospital http://www.ilan.tpg.gov.tw/

2nd step: Click “making an appointment”.

3rd step: Click “making online appointments”.

4th step: There are two opptions. Please click “by clinics”.

5th step: It will show you clinics and please choose one clinic.
(I only translate some clinics you might have a chance to go.)

6th step: Choose the date, period, and doctor.
Please click one box which has a doctor’s name and
match the date and period you plan to go.

7th step: Then, it will ask you to enter your medicial record number or your ARC number. (If you have been to the hospital, you will have the medicial record number from the hospital.) Please remember that you have to switch your westen year in Taiwan year by minusing 1911 and if the number is less than 100, you have to add “0″ in front of the number of your Taiwan year of birth.

8th step: Confirm your information of the appointment.

9th step: After you confirm the information,in addtion to the info showed you last page,it will show you your appointment number and reminders.

10th step: Congratulations!!! You are done. Then, please remember to show up on the day which you make an appointment.

Seeing the doctor (IV) – After making an online appointment

Before seeing the doctor:
If you’ve already made an online appointment, go to the doctor’s office directly and wait outside the room until the electric board shows your appointment (waiting) number.

While seeing the doctor:
When you enter the doctor’s office, a nurse will ask for your health insurance card. When you are finished seeing the doctor, a nurse will ask you to wait a minute to get the printed notes. You will have at least one note which will show you the fee that you should pay and the medicine pick-up number. She will return your health insurance card as well.

After seeing the doctor:
Bring the notes to registration & cashier counter to pay the fee and then go to the medicine pick-up counter to get your medicine. After you pay, you will have a receipt from the clerk. (Please keep the receipt.) The clerk will stamp on the note with the medicine pick-up number on it. When the electric board at the medicine pick-up counter shows your number, please bring the stamped note with your pick-up number on it and your health insurance card to get your medicine.

Although you will get your medicine pick-up number before you pay the fee, if you don’t pay the fee and have the note be stamped, the pharmacist won’t give you your medicine.

(By Kelly Lin ^_^)

Seeing the doctor(II) -First time to visit a hospital / drop in visit

If it’s your first time to go to a hospital (or clinic), you have to fill out a form at the registration & cashier counter for them to know your basic personal information such as your birth, contact information, medicine allergy, ect.

(The order of the expressions below is English, Chinese ,and then Pinyin, the number means the tone)
You can say ” This is my first time here”
我是第一次來
wo3 shi4 de4 yi ci4 lai2Then, the clerk will give you a form to fill out.

However, if you are not sure how to fill out the form in Chinese, you can ask the clerk to help you fill out the form by showing your ARC card which has your basic information in Chinese on.

You can say “Could you help me to fill out? Because I don’t know much to write Chinese”.
可以請你幫我填嗎？因為我不太會寫中文。
ke yi3 qing3 ni3 bang wo3 tian2 ma? Yin wei2 wo3 bu2 tai4 hui4 xie3 zhong wen2

After your first time visiting the hospital, you will have a medical record number from the hospital and you can make an online or on-the-spot appointment for next time (if you have) No matter which hospital or clinic you go, you can’t make an appointment if it’s your first time there and besides you have to fill out a form and wait to see the doctor.

If you have been to the hospital and want to make an appointment in person, the procedure for seeing the doctor will be different from making online appointment only at the beginning. Instead going to the doctor’s office directly, you have to make an on-the-spot appointment at the registration & cashier counter. (If it’s your first time, you have to fill out the form first.) The clerk will ask you for your health insurance card and then ask what clinic you want to see and date. She/he will print a note for you that will indicate the date, the doctor’s office and your appointment number. Then, follow the same procedures mentioned in the article of Seeing the doctor (III)- after making an online appointment to see the doctor and get your medicine.

 

(By Kelly Lin ^_^)

Seeing the doctor(I) -Introduction and information about Yilan Hospital

Yilan hospital (National Yang Ming university hospital)
Website: http://www.ilan.tpg.gov.tw/ 
TEL: (03) 9325192 – main
        (03) 9365432 -about appointments

• Yilan Hospital’s hours to accept appointments
  morning: 08:00 ~ 11:00
  afternoon: 12:00 ~ 5:00
  evening: 5:00 ~ 8:30
• Doctor’s time:
  morning: 9:00 ~ 12:00
  afternoon : 2:00 ~ 5:00
  evening :7:00 ~ 9:00
  (emergency room is 24 hour)

Most of the doctors in hospital can speak English but maybe not fluently or hardly to speak to foreigners, so please speak slowly while you are talking to the doctor. If by accident the doctor can’t understand you, or you can’t understand the doctor, please call out for your Chinese friend’s help.

Although here is the information about Yilan hospital, most of the hospitals in Taiwan have the similar schedule and procedures to see the doctor. Therefore, you can have the following articles for your reference.

Seeing the doctor I – Introduction& Information about Yilan Hospital
Seeing the doctor II- First time to the hospital / Drop-in visit
Seeing the doctor III – Making an online appointment (instructions)
Seeing the doctor IIII – After making an online appointment

(Kelly Lin ^_^)

workshop in Nov.

 Classroom management
1. classroom management (ppt)

Language learning skills & graphic organizer
1.  using_graphic_organizers (ppt)

workshop in Oct.

Using music and chant
1. using music and chants (ppt)
2. eltnetwork-tips for using songs (doc)

Storytelling
1.  storytelling (ppt) In ppt, there some good story resource links
2.  French poem (ppt)
     Dr. T uses this French poem to demonstrate that even you don’t know the language you can understand part of or most of the story.
3. pizzaz basket stories and pizzaz story box (doc)
    some storytelling lessons
4. paired storytelling and folktales (doc)
    two articles about story tellings

scooter insurance

First, the meaning of the scooter insurance should be the compulsory scooter insurance for people who got hurt whn car accident happened. The compulsory scooter insurance is NOT for you and your scooter. For example, if Mr. Apple has an car accident and hit  Miss Bee and she got hurt. After the police’s investigation, it’s Mr. Apple’s fault. He can contact his insurance company to get Miss Bee some reimbursement. 
 
Then, another insurance which is usually put in the scooter insurance bill is the driver’s safety insurance. This is for the driver which means you, the driver. Mostly there will be two options for you in the scooter insurance bill and they are the basic one: the scooter insurance and the combined one: the scooter insurance + driver’s safety insurance.

Moreover, since it’s the “compulsory” scooter insurance, according to laws, if you don’t have the scooter insurance, you have to be careful of the police and also be a safe driver, or you will be fined $1,500 to $30,000.( This law is usually written on the cover of insurance bill to push people to pay the insurance. Haha!! )

(By Yeslife)

website to check traffic tickets

 The website will also remind you when is the deadline to pay your tickets.
 
Since some camera will be put somewhere you can’t see or you don’t notice, if you are not sure you got a traffic ticket or not, you can go check this website.

The link of the website: http://www.mvdis.gov.tw/wps/portal
 
In the second box of the middle content, you will see 監理資料查詢. Click the first item  “查詢交通違規罰鍰” 
It will ask you to enter your ID number on ARC card and the date of birth (for example:1995/01/02–you enter 840102). Next, select which DMV unit. Because your scooter is registered in Yilan,  choose the third choice-台北區監理所(北基宜花)  Then, press “確定”. The page will show you your traiffic violation. 

If the page didn’t show you anything, then congradulations!!! : )
(By Yeslife)

workshop in Sep.

Teaching different proficiency level (Sep.24)

1. teaching differing proficiency levels (ppt)
2. proficiency factors (word)
3. intelligences (word)
4. multiple intelligences_strategies (word)
5. multiple intelligences_test (word)
6. multiple intelligences_worksheets (word)
7. writing guidelines (pdf)
8. guidelines_speak (pdf)
9. checklist for assessing students (word)

Teaching Young Children (Sep.24)

  – teaching young children (ppt)

About Co-teaching (Sep.10)

1.  models_of_co-teaching_2008 (ppt)
2.  What is coteaching? (PDF)
3.  Coteaching principles, practices and pragmatics (PDF)
4.  Tips and strategies for coteaching at the secondary level (PDF)

5. Scenarios coteaching_2008 (word)
6. Sharing, hopes, attitudes,responsibilities and expectations S.H.A.R.E (word)
7. Teacher actions during coteaching (word)
8. Getting started right i the classroom (word)
9. Sample coteaching lesson plan_2008 (word)
10. coteaching models fill-in chart_2008 (word)
11. Coteaching links

About scooter (Sep.10)
scooter_safety (ppt)