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  Do you have any experience of facing con men? When you walk on the street, you probably meet someone who has good-looking dress and good manners.He stop you and ask you for a market survey of a certain company. After finishing some ordinary questions, he will ask you(even beg you) if you can leave your name,address and phone number. Then, his company will send a gift to you to thank for doing this survey and you also have a chance to win a big prize. And after few days, your phone rings and tell you that you have won the jackpot from their company, but you need to pay 15% of the jackpot for tax before you get the jackpot back. If you really do what he has said, I think your money will never come back.

 This is an ordinary story that happens in taiwan day after day. Inspite everybody knows it is just a scam, there are still some people cheated by con men. 

 There are many stories about con men in Taiwan. They maybe ask you to donate money for a charity, or pretend a fund raiser to gather money for building a temple. Some con men even run into your company or house for donation about certain kind of reasons. They use your sympathy, curiosity and greed to pull your money out. Pitifully, someone just can't learn lessons from them.

 Yesterday, my wife and I went to 北埔 to check out the condition of the road and took a look at the environment of the leisure farm called 老頭擺( such a strange name). Because we plan to hold an outdoors teaching there for my school students.

 Fortunately, the road to the leisure farm is ok so far, not be damaged by the heavy rainfall during the past few days. But the road is a little narrow, so we must drive very carefully.

 Beside the farm, there is a stream, we decide to take a river tracing down the stream. I think students will like this kind of activity. But still need to pray for the God that do not rain next Wednesday. 

  Have you ever had chicken pox? For me, it is an unforgetable experience. I got chicken pox when I served in the military about ten years ago. I was infected by others. Because there were several people got chicken pox before me. So, I still remember it was about 5 or 6 including me got this illness at the same time. And we were sent to the military hospital at the same time.

  The symptoms came very quickly. At first, I felt dizzy and had a fever. After a night sleep, the poxes started to grow from my head and gradually spreaded to my whole body. The itchy feeling almost drove me crazy.

 Despite chicken pox is not a fatal illness, but it still caused lots of pain such as itchy body, fever heat and so on. After one week hospitalization, we went back to the military camp and were forced to stay in a small dormitory for quarantine. After another two weeks, they freed us when we healed this illness.