A few months ago, I wrote a somewhat popular post about My French Story and what lead me to learning French and eventually living there. I thought I would follow up with my less exciting story on how I got to Hong Kong. As you can see from my French story, I…
Continuing with last Wednesday’s blog on Hong Kong, I am moving onto city number two on CNN’s List of Most Visited Cities, which is Singapore. Singapore rivals Hong Kong in many ways: both are former British Crown colonies, they are two of the leading financial cities in the world, they both…
A few days ago, CNN posted a list of the World’s Most Visited Cities. I have been to 13 of the Top 25, and it is no surprise that the city I loosely currently call home is number 1. Hong Kong had a whopping 25.6 million people visit in 2013.…
So I know I mentioned I will be in Korea soon, but I am also going on a sudden work trip to China and I think this may be blocked there. Therefore, I am writing my post which I was going to write for Friday today. Hong Kong Junks. No,…
Well, I went my first entire week without blogging (on this blog…). I know this is horrible thing to do in the blogging world, especially in your first 90 days. Oops. But man have I been busy. Anywho, I am taking you on a trip to the past, and coincidentally it…
I have now lived abroad, away from my home of Illinois, for three years. I spent almost a year in France and a little over two in Hong Kong. I think American accents are the most influenced and malleable of all English accents, and the Midwest accent especially. When I was…
When I was younger, I always wanted to be like my Aunt Julie. She was living abroad in Italy, and had been there most of my childhood. I remember one time, when she visited me, I printed off 100 of Italian phrases I translated on Google Translate (you thought Google Translate…
So since coming back to Hong Kong in January, I have been trying to do something new every week or every other week. I am going to write about them on Fridays – hence Friday Firsts. I have been a bit bad the past month or so and not keeping…
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