About Me!
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!
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Tag Archives: Video
Help Me Win a Free Trip to Hong Kong!
Hi everyone! I created a photo essay and a video for a contest with the company that sent me to China, AYC. I’m hoping you can all take a few minutes out of your busy lives to vote for my submission … Continue reading
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Tagged Ameson Year in China, AYC, China, contest, ESL, Hong Kong, Ningbo, photo essay, teach abroad, travel, Video, vote, win, Yunnan
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Adventure Awaits
AYC is having its first annual photo essay and video competitions. Naturally, I entered both, because let’s face it, what else am I going to do with my time? My last post, This is Home, was my photo essay contribution, and … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, Ameson, Ameson Year in China, AYC, Beijing, China, competition, contest, culture, ESL, Guilin, Harbin, Malaysia, National Day, New Year, Ningbo, rice terraces, Shanghai, Spring Festival, teach abroad, teaching, Thanksgiving, travel, Video, Vietnam, youtube
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Thanksgiving in China
While I’m used to not going home for Thanksgiving (DC to Seattle is a long and expensive plane ride for just a few days), there’s something about being in China for Thanksgiving that makes you miss home. Almost everyone in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ameson Year in China, AYC, Budhism, ceremony, China, culture, dinner, ESL, food, holiday, Jade Buddha Temple, photo, Shanghai, Thanksgiving, travel, Video, Western food, Xiaolongbao, Yu Gardens, Yu Yuan
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Black Market Cooking Oil in China
One of my friends from Singapore recently sent me this article from the Washington Post titled: You may never eat street food in China again after watching this video. The article is about black market “recycled” cooking oil fished from … Continue reading
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Tagged black market, China, clean, cooking oil, cuisine, diarreah, food, health, news, recycled, safety, sewer, sick, street food, travel, Video, Washington Post
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Happy Halloween!
You never realize how much you miss American holidays and traditions until you ship yourself to a country that has never heard of them. Halloween is such a fun and interesting holiday, I wanted to bring it to all of … Continue reading
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Tagged abroad, activity, Ameson, AYC, bobbing for apples, candy, celebrate, children, China, costume, culture, ESL, game, Halloween, high school, holiday, kids, Laowaitan, lesson plan, Michael Jackson, Nightmare Before Christmas, Ningbo, primary school, school, teach, teaching, This is Halloween, thriller, travel, trick or treat, Video, Wuxiang
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Check out my video on the Alliance Website!
This year I’ve been interning with the Alliance for Global Education, the study abroad company I went to China with. I’ve also been working as an Alumni Ambassador for them on the side, representing Alliance at GWU. As part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance For Global Education, China, Dali, Kunming, Shaxi, Study Abroad, tiger leaping gorge, Video, Yunnan
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