- 6 months ago
New Zealander Peter Meads married his Taiwanese wife believing that wherever she was, home would follow. Yet their journey led them through illness, loss, and difficult decisions that tested their resilience and their commitment to one another. In this episode of Hakka TV’s Home Sweet Home, we follow the couple’s return to Taiwan, where they have rediscovered healing, strengthened family ties and found a renewed sense of belonging.
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00:13Hello and welcome to Inside Taiwan where we take a look at the stories shaping the
00:18country. I'm Laurel Stewart. New Zealander Peter Meads married his Taiwanese wife
00:24believing that wherever she is home would follow but life took them through illness
00:29loss and impossible choices testing their bond along the way. In this episode
00:35of Hacker TV's Home Sweet Home we follow their return to Taiwan where they found
00:40healing, family and a deep sense of belonging.
00:53Hey, I'm Ma. I want to take a look.
00:58What's the way?
01:00Uh, I want to take a look at the day.
01:02That day we're going to take a look at the day.
01:06I want to take a look at the future.
01:08Okay.
01:27Hi, my name is Peter Meads. I come from New Zealand
01:31I've lived in Dongsu for five years with my wife and daughter and mother-in-law and
01:37I am an English teacher
02:07Look, I can do it
02:08I can do it
02:18Let's go
02:19Let's go
02:22Here
02:23Here
02:23Here
02:33Here
02:56I'm really blessed to have Aggie's brother as my brother-in-law
03:03I'm very blessed because he's very understanding and he's very fun
03:09You know, with the small, he comes down to my Chinese level
03:15And if he knows what he can say and what he can't, he really does
03:21And we can communicate
03:25And so I really appreciate, really appreciate him
03:28He teaches me Chinese sometimes
03:31Heárias
03:32We're adesso
03:34Let's go
03:35We're just gonna take the camera
03:52It's a little bit.
03:54I'm just a little bit.
03:55I was just going to make a House and the House on the side.
03:57I'm going to go out and be able to make it.
04:04I'm going to be able to do something that I don't care about.
04:09I'm going to be able to make it.
04:10I'm going to go out there.
04:12It's like a lot of communication.
04:20You know this is for for肥料?
04:53I want to get a food.
04:54Do you want to have food?
04:56Do you want to eat food?
04:57Your daughter wants to buy food.
04:57If you come here, I should ask them to open the door.
05:01I'll help them open the door.
05:02Finally, I have to eat food.
05:09I'll make it with my mom.
05:10You don't want to have some cereal?
05:14No.
05:14It is missing, no?
05:17OK.
05:17Hello, the bunny beer.
05:20OK.
05:23He was a European woman.
05:28But at the beginning, he still didn't know where Taiwan was,
05:32and what Taiwan was.
05:34He knew about Japan.
05:36I thought she was Japanese.
05:38I liked Japanese culture, and I was a little disappointed,
05:42but I thought, oh, OK, that's OK.
05:45Because I can already speak a little Japanese.
05:48And I thought, oh, no, no, I have to learn Chinese.
05:51Oh, my God.
05:53I didn't even think that he was with a Taiwanese person.
05:58But if he was a Taiwanese person,
05:59he would ask a lot of things with Taiwan.
06:03He would be very curious.
06:06OK, you want to drink a little bit of tea?
06:11No?
06:14What is your first favorite?
06:16Oh, it's a sea-jian-bao.
06:17It's a sea-jian-bao.
06:17He likes a sea-jian-bao.
06:19And when he returned to Taiwan,
06:22he would be very happy to eat a sea-jian-bao.
06:24Every day, he would be very happy to eat a sea-jian-bao.
06:25Every day, he would be very happy to eat a sea-jian-bao.
06:28And, yeah, he'd be very hungry.
06:31After he got off the sea-jian-bao-jian-bao,
06:33he'd be very happy to eat.
06:35In the past, he always was eating a sushi-jian-bao.
06:37He was eating eating a lot of things earlier.
06:39When it's not healthy,
06:41So, this is not healthy.
06:42My mom was eating the sushi-jian-bao-jian-bao.
06:43And now, he said, no.
06:44So, my dad did not eat it.
06:46So, if some mom would come to cook a sushi-jian-bao.
06:48She will also eat a sushi-jian-bao.
06:49Yes, it's always eating a sushi-jian-bao.
06:51This is my cheese-mantau.
06:53This is my cheese-jian-bao.
06:54Oh, oh.
06:57Oh, oh.
06:59Daddy, it's something.
07:00Yummy.
07:02It's something.
07:04Anika.
07:05Ah!
07:05What?
07:06What?
07:07Come on.
07:22Well, the reason I've come to Taiwan is, of course, my son and family now live here.
07:28And they asked me to come over and see Taiwan and visit them.
07:36And they took me for a trip around some of Taiwan and showed me around.
07:42And at that stage I was working full time so I could only get four, it was just under four
07:49weeks off.
07:50So, yeah, that was my first trip.
07:58Ooh.
08:00I want to get the...
08:02I want to kind of use the mondo grass as the main feature of this.
08:10I think it will be...
08:12But I just don't know quite how to do it yet.
08:15It's good the way it is.
08:17Yeah?
08:18You reckon?
08:19I'm trying to get the...
08:20the lauren area to match this.
08:27This one's fallen down from here and starting to grow very healthy.
08:31It has a flower as well.
08:34Okay, we'll see how that goes.
08:36I think this one's too healthy.
08:38It's over growing.
09:02The gardening in New Zealand is very different.
09:07The soil, the bugs, the seasons.
09:15Like summer is hot but also wet.
09:17In New Zealand it's hot but not so wet.
09:22In the winter it's wet so it's colder and it doesn't evaporate quickly.
09:29So there's all different features, all different aspects you have to consider when gardening in Taiwan.
09:40i know and i know and i know and in...
09:44In New Zealand if you...
09:47If you...
09:48the school brown colour it...
09:51It's specifically done.
09:52Because the sky is burning.
09:54So it's boiling.
09:56So...
09:57And there's all different images here in Taiwan.
09:58In Taiwan, you put the Correct Ones.
10:02And there's so pretty Lossy.
10:08So...
10:09In Taiwan you're left in the Right Prayer and followく the hair rolling.
10:10There are a lot of things that are not good.
10:16Are you going to break it into your heart?
10:19Yeah.
10:19Look at how many roots are in this.
10:24It's just all root.
10:38I think it's just been bred into him, you know, right from my parents, his grandparents,
10:45like down through living with me and because I love gardening and, you know, we have a good, you know,
10:56rapport with each other with helping and, yeah, yeah.
10:59No, I think it's come from just a long line of gardeners and my family.
11:11Peter is a child.
11:13And we also have a child.
11:15So Peter's mother is a mother.
11:18We call her mother.
11:19We call her mother.
11:20We call her mother.
11:21She will be very grateful for us to come back.
11:25We will come back to her when she was very, very, very, very, very.
11:30But we told her that you can see us every year.
11:32She will see us every year.
11:34And we will see her every year.
11:36So now the model is just half a year.
11:40Just half a year, we go to her.
11:42And half a year later, she will come back.
11:44So she can see her half a year and her daughter.
11:47And then she will keep holding this model.
11:50So she's good.
11:51So she's been here for a few months.
11:54Three or ten years.
11:55Everybody mode the children
12:20this is a Hamish person.
12:21This is the one I ate.
12:23I am at 1 o'clock at 1 o'clock.
12:25I worked here for about 5 years.
12:53Yeah. Popcorn. Popcorn. Popcorn. Popcorn. This is the popcorn man. This is the popcorn man.
13:04Yeah, we decided to go to Taiwan and I had a good break here for three weeks and then I
13:10decided time to look for a job.
13:13I walked down the street, gave some paper CVs to some bushy barns and then I walked to a supermarket,
13:25got a phone call like 10 minutes after giving my CV.
13:29He said, oh, you haven't found a job yet, have you? And I said, no. And he's like, oh, come
13:34back, come back.
13:36You know, they were so, they were just looking for a foreigner and they couldn't believe I lived in Dongsu,
13:43like willingly.
13:46So they were like, yeah, yeah, come back, come back, work here, work here. So, yeah.
13:51I'm still here five years later. Enjoy Taiwan. It was a good move. Yeah, it was very, very good.
14:03Teacher Peter Sharon. I am wonderful too. Good job.
14:09Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay. Everybody, shh, come on. Kevin.
14:14He has a choice for children because he has a daughter. He knows that his daughter's age should be able
14:21to communicate.
14:23So he can bring the kids to the outside.
14:26Actually, usually, outside the practice of the outside,
14:27the outside is all from our classes and our students to help us with the communication.
14:32But Peter will be able to bring the kids to the outside,
14:34using the more simple language.
14:37It's like, just sitting down and sitting down and talking with the children.
14:40I think that other students are not taught in the classroom.
14:46He knows that the kids are in the classroom,
14:47he's involved in the classroom.
14:48So if you can communicate with the kids,
14:51it's more well-known.
14:52result
15:23Oh no! Oh no!
16:17遇見的話我可能就不是這個樣子開始思考什麼叫做一個分圖形大聲地看出來說我是台灣人阿嬤我可以幫我怎麼幫妳妳要幫我就好是不是還是妳要好妳要放這個在裡面嗎不是
16:41好哇那麼漂亮啊對漂亮紅絲在上面很漂亮喔因為這是我最喜歡的客家菜我最喜歡的所以如果阿嬤不在我可以自己自己自己煮
17:11我不用囉嗦阿嬤阿嬤阿嬤麻煩麻煩麻煩阿嬤不要阿嬤麻煩阿嬤麻煩阿嬤麻煩阿嬤
17:33麻煩阿煩麻煩麻煩阿煩她也是像兒子一樣啊女婿就是兒子啊春桓啦小莽昨天還問我阿嬤沒有那個香蕉又沒有肉侣了一斤九十塊呢很貴我這樣給她她說沒關係我錢給妳她每次都這樣子
17:37I don't want to fry it.
17:38I want to fry it.
17:39Because it's more香.
17:42I want to fry it.
17:44I don't want to fry it.
17:46I don't want too much oil.
17:46If you're all together, the taste is not different?
17:51It's not different.
17:52It's not different.
17:58The sour taste and the sour taste.
18:00The sour taste and the sour taste.
18:01It's good.
18:02It's good.
18:04It's good.
18:05I think it's sweet, sweet.
18:11I love to eat the Hakka food.
18:14God bless the Hakka food.
18:16God bless the Hakka food.
18:20I have to eat this.
18:23I don't have to keep eating.
18:25I have to eat this.
18:26I have to eat this.
18:27I have to eat this.
18:28Okay, good.
18:30I don't know.
18:32I know the Thai language is...
18:34I don't know.
18:36I don't know.
18:36I don't know.
18:37I don't know.
18:39I don't know.
18:45I don't know.
18:46Yeah, I love the place.
18:48I love the people.
18:49I love the food.
18:50I love the everything.
18:52That's okay.
18:54That's okay.
18:55That's okay.
18:56That's okay.
18:56That's okay.
18:56That's okay.
18:57That's okay.
18:58It's easy.
19:00It's easy.
19:04I think it's very complicated.
19:08I love the food.
19:09It's easy.
19:13I have to eat the food.
19:19It's easy.
19:20Okay.
19:22Okay.
19:22Okay.
19:22And take a bite.
19:23Okay.
19:23Thank you very much.
20:11Yeah, my wife is very, she loves to study, which I really don't understand.
20:18I hate study.
20:18And, yeah, she's very lucky she doesn't have to do any housework, because we have Amma here.
20:27And she just loves, she's in bliss studying, so whatever.
21:18She's a little bit more than a child.
21:20She's a little bit more than a child.
21:23She's a little bit more than a child.
21:36I just left a week on the next week
21:38I'm going to go to school
21:40other times I'm going to go to school
21:42I'm going to go to school
21:59Hello!
22:00Hello!
22:02We're going to do the next week.
22:04Then we're going to do the next week.
22:05Yes!
22:06Yes!
22:07Yes, at the morning.
22:10At 10.10.
22:10Yes, exactly.
22:33Station and station are different.
22:35Station. What is station?
22:37Bus station.
22:39Station.
22:41Station.
22:43How do you spell?
22:46Station.
22:47How do you spell?
22:52S.
22:53T.
22:54A.
22:55T. I. O. N.
22:58You don't want to write today, right?
23:00You don't want to write.
23:02It's okay.
23:03Did you hear that sound?
23:06It is a monster.
23:12That I found.
23:15They are no monster.
23:18Living in our home.
23:20It's only me and my family.
23:23Live in our home.
23:25You do the math.
23:27Okay, you can do it.
23:29Three years ago, what did you do?
23:30Three years ago, what did you do?
23:34Two years ago, three years ago.
23:35Two years ago.
23:36Two years ago.
23:37Two years ago.
23:41Can you write it down?
23:43Three years ago.
23:44Three years ago.
23:45You can write it down.
23:46I didn't think you were too old.
23:52I was a teacher at the University of Lika,
23:59who was able to teach students
23:59at the University of Frankfurt's University
24:01in the University of Lika.
24:03I hope that I can see
24:06the research and the study of the university.
24:09I feel that in Taiwan,
24:14in the University of Lika,
24:15there are plenty of other
24:16I'm now in the direction of the school.
24:18I'm now in the direction of the school.
24:19I think it's a good opportunity to do the gym.
24:27I'm here in the school.
24:53It's been a long time for me to go to the house, I was 20 years old, I was 20
24:59years old, I was 20 years old.
25:02But to the outside of this situation, it's not a新鮮 thing for me because I have a lot of friends
25:09in my family, and I also have a lot of friends in the world.
25:15They all have access to foreign languages.
25:22So, I'm really looking forward to foreign languages.
25:25I'm so excited to be able to go to foreign languages.
25:32My mom wanted to go to the United States.
25:37My dad was in the United States.
25:38But I met a friend from New西蘭 from New西蘭
25:44He thought New西蘭 is a pretty good choice
25:49The environment is a pretty good choice
25:50He has a lot of money
25:51He has a lot of money
25:52We have a lot of money
25:55We have a lot of money
26:03We have a lot of money
26:05We have a lot of money
26:06We have a lot of money
26:08It's a chicken pie
26:11Welcome home
26:14There are all these
26:18Like that
26:21Don't eat
26:23Don't eat
26:23Don't eat
26:28It's sweet
26:33Yeah? Yummy? Yeah?
26:36You go to a night market
26:37They've got like little games
26:39You know, it's nice
26:41You won't see that in New Zealand very often
26:44Sometimes a school will have
26:46We call it a school gala
26:48Sometimes you have a fair or something
26:52Come to town and you get those sort of games
26:55But no, I love Taiwan
26:57You can throw those rings every Saturday
27:00And just ahhh
27:16What do you think that is?
27:18What do you think that shows off here?
27:21Not bad
27:22Not bad
27:23Not bad
27:23Not bad
27:28Swallow it
27:29Go, go, go
27:30Yeah
27:31Not bad, huh?
27:33Not bad
27:33Not bad
27:36I don't like that
27:37I want to eat
27:39I want to eat
27:40No, it tastes better than it smells
27:43It tastes like it smells
27:45Not bad
27:46It smells like it smells
27:50Oh shit!
27:51Oh shit!
27:53There's a lot of discussion.
27:54We've been here with mom so many years.
27:56If she needs to be a mom,
27:58she's going to come back to her mom.
28:00I have to take care of her mom.
28:03I can take care of her mom.
28:04And so many years,
28:07she's a thief.
28:09She doesn't want to take care of her.
28:11She's very independent.
28:12She's got all of the insurance.
28:14She's got all of her own.
28:15But she's only a child.
28:17She's got all of her.
28:19We should still take care of her.
28:21We should still take care of her.
28:25We should go back to her.
28:26We should go back to her.
28:27If she's not good,
28:29we should go back to her.
28:32We should do her.
28:32We should do her.
28:33We should do her.
28:39Last one.
28:42No pressure.
28:43Only two.
28:45That's right.
28:46That's right.
28:48Daddy's got a team.
28:49You have one.
28:50That's right.
28:52Wow.
28:55So nice.
28:57I love this.
28:58You found me a lot.
29:00I love Taiwan.
29:01I want to go back to Taiwan.
29:02I want to go back to Taiwan.
29:05I don't want to go back to New Zealand.
29:06I want to go back to New Zealand.
29:07So I want to tell my mom.
29:12If you do exercise.
29:14You eat healthy food.
29:16You don't want to go back to New Zealand.
29:22Oh, my God.
29:34There's so many things that I wish the world to see.
29:38It is amazing to watch this captain maneuver this giant ship.
29:43It takes three days to cut this.
29:46The flavor is unbelievable, incredible.
29:49And it's my turn to make something inspired by Chef Gore.
29:53It's going to be quite a challenge.
29:57Can you imagine that?
29:59It's surreal.
30:00Yes, surreal.
30:01I can't give up.
30:02I got some ass kicking to do.
30:04Nice move.
30:05We're pushing each other to explore and experiment in new different ways.
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30:38Yes.
30:40Cheers.
30:42Bon appetit.
30:43It is about the fun and it's about the glamour.
30:46And it's also about something much deeper than that.
30:48Sometimes you just kind of seize the opportunity.
30:50You just got to do it.
30:51Go, go, go!
30:54To have a place where you're appreciated for you exactly as you are,
30:58and where you can shine and be seen.
31:01On the Asia nothing is enough for me.
31:10OK.
31:17Yeah.
31:18Yeah.
31:21Were you around to eat more yoga?
31:24Have you been around eight hours with food presiding?
31:28A minute and a half this time worried.
31:31Your quadriLE appear to be with food presiding?
31:32I know I was in the morning
31:33It's like 10 o'clock
31:35Yeah, so I was like a drink
31:37I only want a drink
31:39It's an apple
31:40It's an apple
31:45It's an apple
31:46Since my grandmother came
31:49She said to me to get me to take her
31:51Because it's faster
31:52My grandmother used to get her
31:55My grandmother used to go
31:56It's so hot
31:57Oh, okay.
31:59What are you doing?
32:02What are you doing?
32:03I'm ready to go to school.
32:06I'm ready to go to school.
32:07I'm ready to go to school.
32:08I'm ready to go to school.
32:14Mom, see you.
32:28Well, I feel it's only my opinion and it's a long time since St Peter was at school.
32:35The normal everyday school life is sort of from 8.30 to 3 or 3.30.
32:42Whereas here it's Alika at kindy is going at 8 o'clock.
32:48Mind you, and I'm very impressed with the meals.
32:51You know, they get meals here, breakfast, she gets breakfast and lunch.
32:57But in New Zealand, the parents provide their own.
33:00You know, we don't get anything like that.
33:05The kindergarten is very structured, which I think is wonderful
33:11because it gives those children a structure to work and grow with.
33:17You know, the shoes off at the door and their own numbers and their own cubby holes
33:21and their places to put their bags.
33:23Yeah, I think it's wonderful.
33:29Okay, keep going.
33:31Here we go.
33:34Here we go.
33:35Alright, remember the kids are welcome.
33:38It's great.
33:40Remember to leave the kids here?
33:42It's great.
33:42The kids are welcome.
33:44The kids can take care of them from here in the West.
33:45I was going to study from the New Zealand
33:47So, from now on
33:49He was in the middle of the year
33:50He was still in the middle of the year
33:51He was still in the middle of the year
33:54He was still in the middle of the year
33:58He was just gonna love, very nice
34:01He was also in Taiwan
34:04He was also in Taiwan
34:05He was really nice
34:07He was also in Taiwan
34:08So this is always to keep people
34:12Because I have
34:13So if I'm in my life in my life, I'm going to be able to
34:20to make the language in the language of Taiwan.
34:23Then I'm going to be in Taiwan.
34:26For children, I want to respect their choice.
34:29I want to make them every year.
34:31If they like that environment more,
34:35then they'll be able to live in that environment.
34:37From the age of age,
34:39I want to look at their own self-esteem.
34:41If it's enough, we need to learn how to make a choice.
34:49So we need to choose our own choices.
34:50Thank you so much for having me.
35:13When I was in New Zealand, it was very hard to get a job.
35:16There's a lot of competition for every job.
35:19But in Taiwan, well, I won't say Taiwan, but in my situation, in Dongsu, there's not many
35:27foreigners here.
35:28There's a handful of foreigners that live here, around here, but there are so many English
35:34jobs.
35:36There are jobs which, like schools, have never had a foreign teacher.
35:41Danang, Guo Xiao, I don't think they ever had a foreign teacher.
35:46I was the first.
35:49So it's the supply and demand.
35:53I was shocked how easy it was for me to get work here, in this situation in Taiwan.
36:00Knees, touch the ground, game over.
36:04Fall over, game over.
36:09Okay, you can choose what you want.
36:11Right hand, where?
36:13Right hand, red.
36:15So this one, right hand, red.
36:17Okay?
36:18Good.
36:20Good.
36:21Good.
36:22You're a friend.
36:25I'm a sister.
36:27Left foot, left foot in the air.
36:31Okay.
36:32Left hand, red.
36:34Oh, you're so lucky.
36:36Left hand, red.
36:37Oh, you're so lucky.
36:43I'm sorry, you're so lucky.
36:46I'm sorry.
36:47My friend, you're so lucky.
36:51You're a friend.
36:56Oh, you're not the same.
36:59Just so.
37:00Oh, ears?
37:02Oh, my friend, you're a friend.
37:04Oh, my friend's family.
37:05Oh, my friend, so many people are well.
37:07Don't worry.
37:07Unfortunately, it's not a joke.
37:08It's not a joke.
37:10It's not a joke.
37:13I'm not a joke.
37:14I'm using a little bit of an emotional language.
37:16I'm trying to say something about it.
37:20I'm going to say that it's a joke.
37:22And in a moment, I'm moving it with distance.
37:26I'm not going to do it.
37:29Oh, Rebecca.
37:31Left hand yellow.
37:34Yellow.
37:35Left hand yellow.
37:36Hello, right foot air, right foot in the air.
37:59You know, we should, we both wanted a kid,
38:02and we decided we would go for that.
38:06I got a job, and she continued to study.
38:08We had that in place, and then we just went from there.
38:13Yeah.
38:14Because at that time, Aggie was still studying.
38:17She went further with it.
38:18So I started working so we could get some money
38:23to keep everything going, you know?
38:29Ready, go!
38:40How many did you get?
38:44Two, four, six, eight.
38:46How many, Kaka?
38:47Four, five.
38:48One, two, three, four.
38:49Four.
38:51I'm the winner.
38:54One more time.
38:57Come on.
38:57One more time.
38:59Kaka, help me.
39:02Kaka, help me.
39:03Kaka, help me.
39:06Okay.
40:12I just thought it was pregnancy and then my friend said no no that's not
40:19pregnancy that's something else man go and get her checked out and then like I
40:26went to a doctor and the doctor said no there's just something else happening
40:34and so I was starting to get worried and then like two days later she called me
40:40up at work and said I'm really not feeling well and I said okay and I went
40:44home and she's yellow and I'm like Jesus so I went into the ER yeah it was a
40:51bit of a shock and watching her get in the she was dying she was dying like in
40:58front of me and I I I don't know I don't know how to deal with
41:26that
41:27well Peter rang one night really upset
41:31Aggie was 24 weeks pregnant I jumped in the car and off I went to Auckland and
41:39by the time I got there she was dying she her liver had failed she was in
41:45intensive care she was yellow she was delirious she was just not with us at
41:52all she would only live probably for two or three more days at that stage they
41:58didn't know if the baby would survive that was awful it was just it was wondering
42:06and not just Aggie but it was the baby as well you know there were two lives here
42:10that we might have lost you know but crying it
42:21yeah it's very hard it is when I think about her hang on can I get a tissue
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42:59you don't want to change your clothes no what about where should we play pick it up first we could
43:12do some mathematics
43:13sex
43:16this is the one that was so happy I can't get into that
43:18I still don't know if I was born when I was born
43:20that after that I got pregnant when I was pregnant
43:25actually my father's behavior is becoming a bit worse
43:28and in fact I heard my mother say she said she said we could do it
43:33not he could do it but to me and to me and to me and to me and to me
43:36and to me and to me and to me and to me and I think that is my father's love
43:38He didn't say I love you, but he thought
43:43that I will continue my life.
43:46But after that, I knew that.
43:49Of course, it wouldn't happen,
43:50because he's been doing HIV.
43:51That's not possible.
43:52That's not possible.
43:53That's not possible.
43:54Then Saturday night, I got no sleep.
44:00And then the Sunday, all in New Zealand,
44:04most churches start at 10 o'clock.
44:06And I had so many people from different churches,
44:13even in the church in Dongshin.
44:16Fourteen churches on Sunday morning,
44:20at some time Sunday morning, prayed for my wife.
44:25And after that, come Sunday afternoon,
44:29or like just after lunch,
44:34someone responded to the doctors.
44:39And the doctors came in really happy,
44:41said, we found a liver.
44:43And it's just so amazing.
44:46Good morning.
45:03Good morning.
45:06Good morning.
45:08Good morning.
45:09Good morning.
45:10Good morning.
45:10Good morning.
45:11They said, they heard the tristhenics of the disease
45:14and they thought, is it the disease?
45:16Because it was from the United States
45:17and it was from the New Zealand
45:19and it was a single disease
45:21and it was a single disease
45:25and the conditions were all aligned
45:27but it was too big
45:29So Peter said
45:31his stomach is open, open a day
45:32or open a day, because it's not going to go
45:34I said, that child
45:37how to deal with it
45:38and the doctor said
45:40we'll put it back and put it back
45:57When you first wake up, I was very excited
46:01but also
46:04I wasn't feeling anything
46:05I was numb
46:08into the
46:11ICU
46:13and then I said
46:14hey, how are you going?
46:16and she said
46:18hey babe, where's Alika?
46:20and I said, who's Alika?
46:22and she said, our daughter
46:24and she's pointing to her pregnant
46:27belly
46:27she said, is this our first or our second kid?
46:30and I said, is this our first?
46:31and she said, oh, oh, okay
46:34because I was in the hospital
46:37when I was in the hospital
46:37I saw Peter
46:39there was a little girl
46:40to see my father
46:41to see her
46:43and they loved her
46:46so they said, there's a baby
46:48and I said, there's a baby
46:50and I said, there's a baby
46:51and I said, there's a baby
46:52and I said, there's a baby
46:52and that's Alika
46:53and my daughter
46:54you can study
46:54and this is ideal
46:55with her
46:57one
46:57make me
47:03asks
47:07peter and I saw her before
47:08aggie did
47:09because she was in the theater
47:10and they took her to the neonatal intensive
47:15tree unit
47:16And she had to stay there in an incubator until she could feed, you know, take milk.
47:24And of course there was this little wee tiny baby all with tubes and monitors and that, you know.
47:29And Peter put his hand and his hand was nearly as big as the baby.
47:34And I mean, that's lovely.
47:36And I just thought, oh, she just looks like Peter and I.
47:38And a miracle, you know.
47:40It's just a miracle.
47:42That they both survived and that we could get this amazing gift from somebody as a lover.
48:11And they still don't have anything to eat.
48:14And they still have a child.
48:15They think it's very dangerous.
48:16And they always talk about these things.
48:19And he just said, don't come back.
48:20He actually has a feeling like he said, don't come back.
48:25And he just wrote a video with him.
48:28He said, don't worry about him.
48:30He said, don't care about him.
48:31And he said, don't care about him.
48:42First, what we'll do is we'll have a look at the veggie patches.
48:46We can harvest some vegetables.
48:50And then after we come back, we will go to the chicken house.
48:56And we can look for some eggs.
49:00Yeah, chicken, that's right.
49:01Chicken eggs.
49:02Over there, that's right.
49:03Give me five.
49:04Good job.
49:05Okay, one basket, one family.
49:07Just like a family, one family, one family.
49:11Okay, let's go.
49:13Good to go.
49:14Okay, let's go.
49:19Okay, let's go.
49:22Let's go.
49:24I met Peter.
49:27I met Peter for about half a year.
49:34I just thought, I had a lot of Chinese.
49:35I also also participated in Chinese.
49:36This is a little of Chinese.
49:38This is a very violent Chinese.
49:38And I used to try to mix and eat.
49:44Everybody used to eat.
49:47I was thinking how people can understand what they do.
49:51The name is really good.
49:53I just learned it.
49:54It's a very different place.
49:55It became a series of activities.
49:58We want to speak each other in the countryside.
50:00The English also used it.
50:01In English this one is called bok choy, from seed to harvest takes one month.
50:10Now to harvest with your hand the whole thing and then just lift it up like that, real easy.
50:17Get some dirt off it and then get your secateurs, these are called secateurs, not scissors,
50:25these are secateurs and then you cut this just like that.
50:29You take maybe three small leaves from it, one, two, three, and this one is not so good too,
50:40four, five, and then there's your bok choy, okay?
50:45So do you want that one?
50:47Sure.
50:48Okay, so who's first?
50:49Who wants to, you?
50:51Okay, you're number one.
50:52I think this opportunity is very difficult, because I haven't attended this kind of thing,
50:57but I think this is the first time today.
50:58So through the experience of a child's experience, and then the use of English,
51:03even though they don't understand it, but I think they can slowly
51:07don't be so blind to other people.
51:08And after having this experience, they may not be afraid of any other people.
51:14Okay, let's move on to this one here.
51:20Who's hats are these?
51:30This one is sweet pea.
51:36don't pull it because the whole plant will come okay so we just get one finger
51:45here one finger here and just break it like that just open it and eat it it's
51:53fine do you want one grab one
52:06and then just stay here at this time
52:11at this time I would go here at this time
52:15my goal is to let children get to the natural
52:18and don't be stuck in the house
52:20I think I'm doing this job
52:23because I speak English and my hobby
52:29I'm interested in Chinese
52:33so combined
52:37and I'm very happy
52:40I love Peter
52:43I love you
52:45I love you
52:46I love you
52:48I love you
52:48I love you
52:49I love you
53:03Peter
53:03your son is my son
53:06you are my son
53:07thank you
53:09thank you
53:10thank you
53:10my son
53:11I love you
53:13you are so happy here and that's all a mother could want
53:17is for her children to be happy
53:19and I'm so proud of you for learning Chinese and you're getting better and better at it
53:25Peter
53:26thank you
53:27thank you for watching inside Taiwan
53:42you can catch more of our stories on the Taiwan Plus website or on social media
53:46I'm Laurel Stewart
53:47take care
53:48see you next time
53:49for onderste part
53:49for a time
53:49for sera
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