Jacques
van Wersch has spent the majority of the last ten years in Taiwan, but
it was in Glendale, Ariz., of all places, that he met one of the editors
in a video production course.
Jacques
is a good director, and a good story teller. He told many a traveler’s
tale while yours truly was on a video editing suite executing Jacque’s
demands. Firm but fair as a director on a small production (no small
feat, as anyone who has done similar work knows), and fun and intelligent
as well—c’est Jacques.
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We asked him to share his thoughts on his
traveling lifestyle.
What
were you doing before Taiwan?
I had been teaching on a substitute basis in Toronto. A few years earlier,
I had completed my first round-the-world trip and had intended to stop
in Taiwan to teach English for a while.
Other forces
were at work that caused Plan A to fall through, but in the end—based
on the couple of weeks I spent here—I decided to get a teaching
degree. That, in a nutshell is how I ended up teaching in Toronto.
“I was
approached by the Yunnan Television Network to be the lead male actor
in a television movie called 'Allen in Dali.'”
What
made you decide to move there?
Firstly, I was greatly enamored by the chaos I saw in Asia as I skipped
from Nepal to Hong Kong and finally to Taipei on that first trip. The
main other force that caused me to leave prematurely the first time was
a newlywed wife who did not share my enthusiasm for teaching in the “stinking,
polluted city” that she saw Taipei to be. To be fair, Taipei was
a stinking, polluted city—but it was also interesting and vibrant
and oh-so-different from Toronto.
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