This Mid Autumn Festival! I love holidays because we get Monday off haha. Since Monday is off, Tuesday class is cancelled, and I don’t have any classes on Wednesdays or Thursdays, I decided to take the chance and travel a little. Spontaneously, I booked flight to Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo is just like another Hong Kong,…
Adventure in HK
I absolutely love Hong Kong! I had a little rough time getting used to this city—about three days. And everyday since then has been a perfect adventure in this city jungle. All my classmates, foreign or local, are very nice. This year there are about 200 exchange students, mainly from Europe, like Germany, France, and…
Straight Outta Shanghai
I’m really excited about writing this blogpost, because it’s time to educate some people. I decided to search the Internet for common stereotypes about China from the West – and then prove them wrong. Coming from an international country myself, this is one of my favorite things to do. 1. (and my favorite) Not all…
Mollys 18th birthday!
So this month in Australia was incredible for so many reasons. One of them was the fact that it was my home stay daughter, Molly’s 18th birthday! This consisted of a huge weekend of festivities. In Australia, the legal drinking age is 18 so it is pretty much the equivalent to a 21st in America….
Bondi Beach
Being in Australia has been absolutely so amazing. I have met some incredible people while here that I am hoping to never lose touch with. On e 15 minute bus ride from my home stay takes me to one of the most beautiful beaches I have ever been to. Bondi beach is just breathtaking. I love…
Don’t wake me up when September ends, because this is a wonderful dream
I can feel the weather beginning to change in Hirakata City. The days are still nice and warm, all clear skies and sunshine, but most days of the week I bike home after-dark because of how late my schedule goes, so I’ve begun to notice the chill that’s started to settle here. With the help…
The French Way
Coming to a close to my third/ fourth week in Aix-en-Provence. I still think I’m in a haze. It doesn’t really feel as if I am here, I just feel as if I am going to college in a different state and in this state they just don’t exactly speak English. As a result of…
Oktober is here
My first week has ended, and I could not believe how many different classes I had attended. I decided to reward myself by going to Oktoberfest in Munich this weekend, and it was a blur of culture and relief seeing familiar faces. I met up with other Rollins students and we got stayed at an…
October Approaching
October is coming soon which means my birthday is coming up. I do not have any plans to go anywhere for spring break so I will probably just continue to explore Sydney. I really want to make it to the blue mountains and I want to go on the Coogee to Bondi beach walk. I think…
Down the Rabbit Hole
London, with its magical Underground that whisks you off from station to station, is more akin to a microcosm than just a city. Considering that a third of its 8.5 million population was born overseas, the city represents a merging of languages, cultures, cuisines, and arts that has no parallel within the country, and very few…