about me

ian

Though I was born in California during the SARS outbreak in Asia, my parents brought me back to Taiwan shortly after birth when the outbreak was contained. I grew up in Taiwan and spent the vast majority of my time in Taipei. Given the size of the country however, traveling to other cities was very convenient and I often visited Kaohsiung and Tainan. I lived in Taiwan until I was 14 and moved to attend a boarding school in Massachusetts, re-visiting the US for the first time since I had last “set foot” on the country 14 or so years ago. I spent most of my breaks in New York and lived on East Coast for 3 years before returning to Taipei, where I’d end up spend the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic taking online classes. After a year in Taiwan, I traveled back to Massachusetts and New York for another year to complete highschool. Following highschool, I went on to attend college in California which is where I am today.