Writing my way through a country that isn't mine.
Belgian-raised, Indonesian-born, somehow calling Taiwan home since 2018. I moved to this wonderful place without speaking a word of Mandarin, and I am still bad at it.
BEL
TPE
left Brussels in 2006 — went around the world, stranded in London & Taichung.
Language
Discovery
Food & Culture
Building Ryoka
Passenger
Pieter Borremans
BEL
Brussels
TPE
Taichung
Latest posts
LEARNING
Learning Chinese · Oct 01
The moment learning Chinese became less difficult
EXPLORING
Exploring · Sep 12
Liming Huanghun market is my go-to in Taichung
LEARNING
Learning Chinese · Aug 08
Learning Traditional Chinese is daunting
EXPLORING
Exploring · Jul 25
My first days in Taiwan were horrible
LEARNING
Learning Chinese · Jul 20
I started learning Chinese seven years too late.
FOOD
Food & Culture · Jul 14
Western Food Became My Comfort Food in Taiwan
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I am Pieter Borremans, a foreigner in Taiwan who was stranded on this island by fate. This is where I write about the language, the culture, and the version of myself that only shows up when nothing is familiar.
If you're here for the building side of things instead - the projects, the progress, the day-to-day - that lives on my other journal.