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A recent grad in my early 20's hailing from Seattle, USA. This year I'm teaching English at a high school in Ningbo, China. Read along and have a laugh as I share my ridiculous adventures around Asia!
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Ningbo Here I Come!
I FINALLY found out where I will be living next year: Ningbo, Zhejiang! While not on my original list, the more I learn about Ningbo, the more excited I am to live there next year. I’ll be working at Wuxiang … Continue reading
T- 14 Days
With two weeks to go, I figured I’d fill you all in on my painstaking process of trying to prepare for a move to China. A few weeks ago in my post Graduation: Becoming a “Real Person”, I mentioned that … Continue reading
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Tagged Ameson Foundation, apartment, AYC, change visa, China, ferry, flight, flights, Hong Kong, invitation letter, oral english in china, plane ticket, post graduation, Shenzhen, teaching english as a foreign language, TEFL, Tibet, tourist visa, travel, visa, work visa
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Huaren Project
Remember when I wrote a capstone on Skin Whitening in China? Well two of this year’s Alliance Beijing students worked together to create a capstone video documentary on Huaren in China. Huaren, are ethnically Chinese people who live outside of … Continue reading
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Tagged beijing students, Beipiao, China, chinese ancestry, diaspora, documentary, emmigrants, huaren, huayi, immigrants, migration, Study Abroad, western universities
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That One Time I Accidentally Ran a Chinese 8k in the Jungle While Wearing a Dress.
This is the craziest story I have from my 7 months in China, so get ready. In case you haven’t read the earlier posts, I spent my first few days of Spring Break in Hong Kong and Macau and then enjoyed … Continue reading
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Tagged China, forest farms, Haikou, Hainan, hash harriers, hash house, jungle run, jungle tour, Study Abroad, vacation, water buffalo
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The Weirdest Things I Have Ever Eaten
I decided to make a list of the weirdest things I have ever eaten, along with a list of weird things I would like to try eating when I go back to China. Leave a comment if you’ve ever eaten … Continue reading
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Tagged alligator, blood tofu, century egg, chicken feet, China, China Pizza Hut, cow stomach, dali yunnan, donkey noodles, eating donkey, eating pigeon, fried scorpion, fried worms, frog legs, Korea, octopus, pigeon kebab, popcorn chicken pizza, sea cucumber, seoul korea, snails, soup, stinky tofu, Study Abroad, thousand year old egg, travel, vacation, weird food
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Real Facts on China’s Pollution
Many of you have heard about the worsening air pollution quality in China. Here’s an article from the New York Times describing just how bad the air quality really is, and how it is affecting the lives of expats and … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, air quality, China, kids, New York Times, pollution, travel
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Volcanos and Sunburns in the Hawaii of China
Now that I’m done with school and back from vacation, I thought I would finish off my posts about Spring Break in China! In case you don’t remember, my computer completely died at the end of my program in China, … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, China, China beach, Hainan, Spring Break, Study Abroad, sunburn, the Alliance for Global Education, travel, tropical, vacation, volcano, white skin
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What is Happenning in Istanbul?
In case anyone didn’t know what was happening in Turkey, please read this post and spread it to your friends and family.
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