Time has flown; I’ve been in Beijing for about three weeks now, and I’m finally beginning to feel like part of the city. I know my way around Dongzhimen, have a couple of favorite food places, and at last got a Chinese bank account, which makes a HUGE difference when navigating Beijing. With a Chinese … More Settling
你好 from Beijing, and the beginning of my year as a Princeton in Asia Fellow! I’ve been here for just under one week now, and what a week it has been. I’ll start with what brought me here: the job. After spending the weekend before in Bangkok visiting some wonderful friends, I got off the … More Move-ins, Malls, and Millipedes: Week One in Beijing
The other day, my beloved roommate told me that she spent an eight-hour daytime layover holed up in Miami International Airport. A quick Google search reveals that the $2 Miami Flyer bus goes express to Miami Beach from the airport in less than half an hour. That’s ~5 hours she could have spent lounging by … More How to Plan a Long Layover
It’s been a long time since I last posted, but because I’ve done quite a bit of traveling since then I figured I’d better start catching up. Regardless, writing is a nice respite from studying—I’m taking the LSAT in less than a week, so needless to say, logic games and arguments and conditional statements and assumptions … More Iceland
As I mentioned in the previous post, I was able to snag a mistake fare to Dubai and Abu Dhabi for just over $200 round trip. This actually happened on Christmas Day; Etihad Airways had a huge glitch in their system, and there were fares to the Middle East and many other locations across the … More Dubai & Abu Dhabi
It’s been a bit of a long hiatus for me since my last blog post. This semester definitely challenged me in more ways than I could’ve imagined—from a difficult courseload and time-consuming jobs and extracurriculars to a laptop theft that resulted in losing the entirety of the NaNoWriMo novel I’d been working on throughout the … More New Orleans and Cruising the Caribbean
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