Dear JacksonFive:

  Do you remember me?I'm Mandy.I consider myself a true Jacksonfive reader.
  I love to read anything about English.That can improve my English and
  learn things from that.I don't know the exact date I found "Jacksonfive's
  Website".Certainly! SARS has really made a big dent in Taiwan and caused
  great damage. It's a wonderful thing that SARS is over. During SARS, we all
  had to take temperature and checked if it was normal or not. It you weren't,
  you couldn't enter the company.Every time I heard from News that someone
  died..someone was infected by someone..but no one knew who was the
  original patient. I was pretty scared.But my mom told me "Don't be that
  scared!", If you eat healthy food、have a regular life, you won't get SARS.
  Fortunately, SARS is over..>^0^<It's really a huge nightmare of Taiwanese
  people.

  As I know, some foreign teachers don't have certificates telling people they
  are qualified .They can teach English just because they're foreigner speaking
  English? If they can do that, I think everyone in Taiwan also can teach
  Chinese in any countries that want to learn Chinese.To me, even I was born
  in Taiwan, I can speak good Chinese, but I'm sure I can't teach Chinese.I don't
  know how to go about teaching Chinese、how to express things you want
  students to know...something like that.I don't think students can learn lots of
  things from unqualified teachers.Especially children, they don't even know
  what they have learned from that.

  It's really pleased to know you and look forward to getting your e-mail..^_^

  Best regards,
  Mandy
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Dear JacksonFive,

  It's so glad to hear your news again.

  Three months ago, Taiwan was covered by SARS,
  The people lived in here, especial in North of Taiwan,
  They faced SARS as nightmare, suddently diverted around of them,
  I was also. I have to spend double cost to buy the N95 Mask for
  protecting my housband, he is working in Taipei, and travelling
  between Hsinchu and Taipei every working day.

  Thanks God, SARS is getting go away Taiwan now.
  SARS likes to live the environment under 23 degree.
  So, We cannot lost attention.

  Jacksonfive, I am glad to share one thing:
  I will have own baby after six months.
  The kids education is very important,
  Do you plan to establish 2nd elementary/kindergarten in Cuipei?
  Maybe, You can teach me when I have any problem about kids
  education, Cannot you? :-))

  All right, I got to work now,
  Welcome to Hsinchu Hsien, Cuipei,
  You and your family.

  Regards,
  Annie Chin
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Dear Lady/Sir,

  its really a great result that finally Taiwan has been deleted from the list
  of SARS dangerous travel area!

  Right now, in Taipei city, it looks like that every citizen is going out of his
  house, and swarms into the department stores, movie theaters, travelling
  agency, various exhibitions etc. the present city scene is completely
  different than the former months, I really enjoy to seeing this.

  Anyway, how lucky you are - Taichungnese !
  My best regards, Alice Lin
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Dear JacksonFive,

  Thank you for your email. It's nice to hear from you again.
  I've sent you an email when I was in France. But I didn't get any reply from
  you since that.

  Now I am back in Taiwan, especially the day of my arrived in the airport
  was the first day that all the passengers have to fill in one kind of form to
  prove that you've never been to China, Singapore, etc in last few weeks. It
  was on the 31st of March, and I was feeling fun that lots of cameramen
  filmed some passengers who wore the masks.

  At that moment, I was not afraid about SARS. But few weeks later, more and
  more SARS patients in the hospital, and it seemed that SARS had been out
  of control. When I turned on the TV, it was not difficult to find the news about
  SARS at all. It was terrible for the people who lived in Taiwan. And it's really
  bad for the reputation of Taiwan in the world. The CNN journalist filmed some
  bad situations of Taiwan and sent it to all the world. How do the foreigners
  think about Taiwan? Certainly, they are afraid, even us, we were afraid of
  SARS too. It was a disaster for Taiwn. But I still love my country, even some
  parts of medical systems were not good enough to fight this virus. But most
  of Taiwanese people cooperated to get over and pass through this bad
  period. This kind of esprit is always staying in the deep mind of Taiwanese
  peoples. And now we got the experiences and get stronger and stronger.

  Most of industries suffered from this disaster, it'll be the same in your
  school. But I think that this taught will be got over very quickly.
  Congratulations that you've found the right teachers for your school finally.
  I know that lots of foreigners want to come to Taiwan to be an English
  teacher. But most of them don't have a diploma for being a teacher.
  On the other hand, one point is very important. The teacher has to know
  how to catch the attention of students and how makes fun with the students.

  To learn a language isn't too difficult, the most important is that the
  students have the motivations to learn and not learn it for their parents. So
  the right teacher is the main reason for motiving the students.

  Thank you for sharing your experiences with me and hope to hear from you
  again.

  Best regards,
  Angel
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Hello,

  Since i am lived at Taipei, it is special caution whenever you hear the
  cough or sneeze.

  The window on the condition bus has always been opened, because it
  would be safe to let fresh air all around the bus. Everyone wear the mask
  on the walk side/ office/ bus station ets. Just feel unsafe to walk outside of
  house no matter what you could do or wear. The visitors have been refused
  to come office and meet with vendor at that time. After announced that
  Taiwan has taken off from the list finally, everything is back on the same
  method. The sun has still risen up at east, however, the bus window could
  be finally closed under such high temperature... I would like to say " no
  more SARS forever".....

  Cathy Ho
  Merchandiser
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Hi JacksonFive,

  How's it going? It's been a long time for the first time I replied to your
  newsletter.

  In late March this year, when the press still focused on the war on Iraq, the
  fatal disease SARS quietly stepped into Taiwan and created the first battlefield
  in a Taipei hospital. No doubt, the SARS rapidly broke out and took the place
  of the news about Iraq on newspapers' front-page. The situation was messy
  and almost out of hand. A lot of people thought that the shortage of masks
  shouldn't have happened. The pig businessmen used the chance to take
  advantage of the public. The price of masks rose by 5 or 10 times. Panic
  shopping meat that you couldn't get masks even if you had money. It really
  went too far. The government hadn't taken any actions in advance and let this
  happen. I used to playfully urge my female co-workers that: "Please donate
  one of you old bras to people, you will save two innocent lives at the same
  time. "It is too huge for you to wear on your face!" they replied with a laugh.

  The SARS not only tested the government's work efficiency but also examined
  the objectivity in the media and human nature. The press exaggeratedly
  reported the influence of the SARS, which misled the public to think that the
  virus could surround them anytime anywhere. People were so panicked and
  scared that they tried not to get too close to each other in order to prevent
  themselves from infection. No hugging, no more shaking hands, the SARS
  built a wall between people. Only few people stayed in public places, such
  as stations, department stores and hotels. Many economic activities stopped
  during these two and a half months. 

  The SARS deeply impacted our lifestyle and damaged the economy beyond
  our imagination. Luckily, the epidemic situation has been brought under
  control, but the story hasn't finished yet. Scientists believes the SARS will
  be back in the fall and especially warns the people who live in North America
  and Europe to be on guard because the disease hasn't really been spread in
  those two areas yet. "Just like a flu, SARS will be back to our life every
  year." said an expert.

  Rick Weng
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