This is what I got up to this month. Where I WentEdinburgh, UK – a month without travel! What I Read Old Demons, New Deities – This is a collection of modern Tibetan short stories. I normally don’t read fiction, but this is one of the best things I’ve read in a while. It’s a…
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Here’s what was going on in February. Where I went this month:Pentlands, Edinburgh, ScotlandParis, France What I Read:I read this book about the Long March. It wasn’t very good, but I needed to get an overview of the Long March for an essay I’m writing soon. I’m reading a book of Tibetan short stories now,…
Here’s what I got up to in January. Where I WentNorfolk, EnglandLondon, EnglandMalaga, Ronda, Cordoba, Iznajar, Granada, Andalucia, SpainGibraltarEdinburgh, Scotland What I ReadThe Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes – I read this book while I was in Spain. I found it to be a well-written an honest account of a really amazing personal journey…
September has been my busiest and most challenging month in a long time, but it’s been great!Where I Went West Highland Way, Scotland Edinburgh, Scotland Best on Instagram McEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh – Best on the Blog Monthly Recap – the only post I wrote last month! What I Read Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change by Natalya…
This is what I got up to in August! Where I Went Little Rock and Bentonville, Arkansas Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina The Great Smoky Mountain National Park Winnsboro, South Carolina Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Newburgh, USA Edinburgh, Scotland Best on Instagram Back in Edinburgh Best on the Blog Huashan and China’s Most Dangerous Hiking…
This is the month of transition. I have finished my year abroad in China and have returned to the US for a month and a half. Where I’ve beenZhoushan – I started out the month by making my way east from the Western extremes of China back to Shanghai then by bus and boat to Taohua…
Where I Went Shanghai, China Qingdao, Shandong, China Luoyang, Henan, China Huashan and Xi’an, Shaanxi, China Xiahe, Zhangye, Dunhuang, and Jiayuguan, Gansu, China Xining and Qinghai Lake, China For the last half of the month I was backpacking around China. Blog posts about everywhere I went to come! Best on InstagramThis one is from Qinghai…
I’m heading off in a couple of hours to backpack around China. This is what I’m taking with me. I’m taking a 35L Karrimor backpack and a 10L stuff-stack Quechua backpack. I’m taking my clothes in my packing cubes, which I got from Amazon – they’re the Amazon basics brand. I originally wanted the Eagle…
The past couple of weeks have been pretty essay-heavy, so this weekend I got some university work done, but I also enjoyed spending the long holiday weekend here in Hangzhou. This is my neighborhood fruit shop. I love the way it looks at night. Take out delivery drivers line up to get their orders…
This isn’t your average summer reading list. This is my last summer as a student (at least, for now). I’m about to start my final year of university, and this is what I hope to read this summer. I’ve just put up a blog post about my reading goals and preparing for the FSOT. My…