Call me Rishmael: Finding my White Whale — A Relentless Quest for Tea
In 2013, I was inspired by a passage in Moby-Dick to journey into the world in search…
Sorry, it’s been a long time since my last post. Hope you’ve had a Happy Holiday season and 2016 is off to a good start! Holiday-time in China isn’t quite the same as it is in the US. Although they really want it to be. They pretty much use these holidays as another excuse for…
I think we’re going to celebrate by going out to get some…Chinese food! I know you’re shocked.
I just wanted to say: Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends and family back home! Hope your day is filled with football, yummy food and card games (that’s…
Today I was biking home in a good mood. After spending two weeks biking to and from work on the less-than-dependable Beijing bike share system, I had finally gotten my bike fixed. Even better, instead of paying the 50 kuai “deal” I had been offered by the bike repair stand closest to my office, I had walked…
I COULDN’T tell you how old I was when I ran away from home, but I was old enough to be ashamed I hadn’t tried it sooner.
A follow up on the lamp post situation: I got many mosquito bites. I know that mosquito bites don’t seem like a…
I bought my new best friend for 8 million đồng. It wasn’t an instant connection. Rather, it took about 80 kilometers…
During my first Christmas break at home as a college student, I shared with my dad that attending Princeton was weird because it was America, but a very different America than what I understood my country to be when I was growing up in Hilo, Hawaii. Princeton’s culture was very…
