Bonus Picture Post! #3 - A Walk Through My Community, Part 2

My walk continues as I pass by the street I live on, and head towards the renovated area around the new HTC research center. (HTC is a Taiwan-based smartphone and tablet manufacturing company, their HTC One phone was relatively popular in the US as well)

I live down this way

Recycling truck on the move

Garbage truck. There are no household garbage cans to put on the street in Taiwan, or streetside dumpsters.
If you don't live in a highrise, you take your garbage directly to the truck and toss it in there.
They run on a daily schedule and play music (like an ice cream truck) so you know they're coming.

I have no idea what this is, except I think it's a plant and not an alien life form.

Coming out of the residential area, towards HTC. Notice the drying clothes blowing in the wind.

HTC's new research facility, a big boost to the local economy.

HTC built a corporate park for their employees, it's quite nice.
That stuff in the water is fountain equipment.

Some team of architects/designers is proud.

Kids playing in the park area under the watchful eye of their father (offscreen).
The apartments to the left have one of the most interesting uses of empty space I've seen around here.

Sweepers making sure it stays picture-perfect. Note the mountains in the background, they're never far away in Taiwan.

It's a very nice park, and for community use as well as HTC employees. Looks like the perfect spot for a quiet time to me!

One of several schools in our immediate vicinity.

Many areas lie behind gates in Taiwan, access is restricted to those who have a reason to be there.
It's a good metaphor for the barriers to ministry here; relationship is the key that unlocks them.

Another school, this one right behind the community center in Part 1 where our church will theoretically be meeting.

It's getting later in the afternoon, time to head back home.

In my current (temporary) residence, a floor above my Taiwanese coworkers.
This is the view out the front...

And this is out the back.

Well, this concludes our little exploration. As you can see, we have everything in Dapinglin, from affluent community parks and high-tech global companies along expanding subway lines to Chinese traditional markets and alley mazes along concrete drainage canals. It's a diverse and growing community, and I'm excited to be working here.