In a situation where something unexpected happens, what should you do? Panic Blame the universe Accept that the next several hours of your life are going to be remarkable and accept it This past weekend, several things went terribly wrong. Let me…
How to keep blogging while living in China
I’ve just been missing home a lot lately. I’ve been missing the vegan potlucks we used to have on Dwight street. I’ve been missing the red of the fall New England leafs. I’ve been missing biking up to Edwards St…
Impressions of the Pacific-Northwest in the Summer
Seattle Our 10-hour layover in Seattle was my first encounter with what I guess is the region called the ‘Pacific Northwest’ after an awkward 9th grade class reading of “Snow Falling on Cedars” (as 13-year-olds, we clearly couldn’t handle the handkerchief…
American-Chinese
The second time coming back home it finally hits you that China has started becoming something familiar and comforting (doubtful I would have said that in May). I feel like on any trip anywhere really, you sort of crave the…
The shitty part about being in your twenties
One of the things we constantly heard during middle school (aside from the fact that we would need to use cursive for the rest of our life. I listened! But I’m pretty sure our teachers were dirty liars) is that we rarely…
23 and unemployed
I feel like, as bloggers, it’s on some level our duty to write about going through life like dreamy-eyed teenagers, We write about the the bright and the exciting (“ooh look at all the Ayis I saw around the West Lake…
Sharing Secrets
I’m never really sure how much of my life should be appropriate to share on this blog. It’s been just over a year since I started writing on here, mainly on a whim. Well, I first started this in November of 2013, meaning to…
Baby steps, or my first year living in China
It still feels a little wrong to say that I’ve been living in China for a year. But I have. Here goes: “I’ve been living in China for an entire year of my life”. Wrong, because I remember coming back…
How I survived a typhoon living abroad
I’m gonna preface this entry with the following statement: I have never been through an actual hurricane, so I may not be the best authority to turn in the face of a storm. Scratch that. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’m…
"This tastes like Calpis"
I take it as a point of pride that I so rarely ‘lose my shit’. Last Saturday, I lost my shit. I lost it pretty bad. We got to Tokyo on Thursday (via the bullet train!) and by Saturday I…
It's the 21st century: Who gets the bill? (and other questions I ask about gender norms)
I remember, during our time at the Elmhurst, one of the reasons A and would get along so well (aside from our penchant for late-night Moscow Mules and long-winded heart-to-hearts on the fire escape at odd hours of the night), was the fact that I…
Why I’m changing my blog name
In 2007, my dad and I legally changed our last names to my mom’s maiden name. We did this for a few reasons: My old last name was utterly unpronounceable – 12 letters long and about 2/3 of them consonants…