A Parent’s Guide to Your Child’s Year in Asia
You’ve gotten a job in China. Or maybe you’ve decided to embark on a backpacking trip through India and Nepal. It’s wonderful, exciting, and maybe a little terrifying – perhaps […]
You’ve gotten a job in China. Or maybe you’ve decided to embark on a backpacking trip through India and Nepal. It’s wonderful, exciting, and maybe a little terrifying – perhaps […]
January 13th I offered my last final exam. January 14th was a marathon day of grading, as I along with three student volunteers grades 150 final exams. Around 1 a.m. […]
Meeting new people is the one of the highlights of any trip, but also one of the hardest. People are messy, confusing, even boring, and it’s much easier to consume […]
I’ve just completed the fall semester of my second year, and in many ways the second year is easier: I’m familiar with the school, I know many of the students […]
As I was during my last entry, I’m in Taiwan! I liked it so much I just had to come back. So let’s pretend no time has passed, and that […]
Greetings from Taiwan, as I wait out a typhoon raining down on my hostel and wind down my Central Asia and Taiwan trip. In the blog, I’m still in western […]
I had originally planned to get into Urumqi, in western China’s Xinjiang province, the evening of July 3rd, but apparently China Southern Airlines had other plans for me. On a […]
This seems to be the fate of many blogs – launched with great fanfare and then quietly left in the lurch. Nevertheless, this blog lives on, and I’m determined to […]
I left for Yangshuo the next morning. It was my first time taking a bus in China, not including local city buses, and I realized after buying my ticket at […]
The Chinese are rightfully proud of the cities of Guilin and Yangshuo, two cities about an hour apart that mark the epicenter of Chinese tourism. The region is one of […]