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This is a collection of blog posts from my time living in Southern China, 2016-2017.
August 1, 2017
I tried to photograph all my meals during my year abroad.
June 21, 2017
A series of silly toasts I shared the night before heading back to the USA.
June 20, 2017
A comparison between the climate where I was in China with where I lived in Minnesota.
May 15, 2017
A poem I wrote about rain.
April 25, 2017
I thought I was brave, but I'm just a fool, To think going out sans umbrella was cool. I'll just walk to town to eat a quick bite, The rain has sto...
April 20, 2017
Several months ago futuristic silver and orange bikes started to appear around Tangjia and Zhuhai. Branded with the word Mobike in a thin orange sans...
March 27, 2017
One of the other interns talked about a Chinese cold remedy in a recent blog post. Apparently boiling Coca Cola, pigs feet and ginger together gi...
February 24, 2017
Something I've discovered while living in China is the usefulness of pictographic language. I occasionally see people online bemoaning the increased p...
February 14, 2017
It was a beautiful sunny day in the middle of February. By noon I had decided that I would go home and run before going out to eat with a bunch of int...
Our intern group typically celebrates birthdays by going out to a family style dinner. So on February 13th I created a small WeChat group to plan out...
January 29, 2017
Blind Alley. The ominous name sounds like a mysterious place out of Harry Potter, or perhaps just a sign created by a local municipality to help p...
January 28, 2017
The day is sunny and cold. The air is crisp. It reminds me of Minnesota, only with more Korean signage. Snow crunches under my shoes as I walk across...
January 25, 2017
Its about 15 degrees outside. Fahrenheit, if that matters. I'm in South Korea and I am not ready for this sort of weather. I had spent most the day...
January 20, 2017
Friday is my last day to explore Japan and I'm on my own. The forecast calls for rain all day and it looks dreary outside. I should go to an onsen I d...
January 18, 2017
Haley and Luke have Wednesday off and we're planning to take a ferry to visit one of the neighboring islands. As we plan for the trip we find out a on...
January 17, 2017
Luke and Haley have been asked to be a part of some sort of community theater production. I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I got to go watch the...
Monday Luke has the day off so we get to spend it together hanging out. The weather is still cold and windy, but we decide to brave the weather for...
January 15, 2017
The sofa bed, while perhaps not ergonomically great for my spine, is the softest thing I've slept on since I was kicked out of my bedroom by my renter...
January 14, 2017
The Yonago Airport is the Mom & Pop's of airports. With a single runway, its three gates almost seem like an unnecessary luxury. Immigration requires...
January 12, 2017
I’ve seen three movies in theaters while in China. I would have liked to see more, but tickets are usually ¥35-50 and the experience is not always tha...
