​This year is my 18th year in Canada, which means that I have left Taiwan for the past 18 years. 

Taiwan is my hometown, although I often have a very interesting feeling toward this country. On the one hand, I was born on this beautiful island and spent my first 16 years of life there. However, I've also spent the next 18 years in the West, and I mainly grew up in the West, received a Western education, and blended nicely into Western civilization.