Thought Thursdays: Teaching is a Real Job
A lot of my friends and people I know don’t think I actually have a job here in Hong Kong. They think that I am just faffing about (hehe, another British word I like) traveling the world. Yes, I am traveling when I get the chance, but I also am…
Wander Wednesday/Friday Firsts: Hong Kong Junks
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,…
Friday Firsts: Traveling Solo
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…
Friday Firsts: I am NO artist.
My mom was an art teacher. From the smallest of doodles she’d make while talking for hours on the phone to the grand projects she’d make for her classroom – everything was amazing, at least to my eyes. She shared her love of art with thousands of students, and was…
Top Ten Tuesdays: Top Ten British-isms I now do (and American expats probably do!)
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…
My French Story
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…
Friday Firsts: Grasshoppers
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…
Thoughts Thursday: I am a workaholic.
As I sit down to eat another meal at 10:30 p.m. (click here for more on that.) I am beginning to realize how much of a workaholic I am. A workaholic is defined as a person who compulsively works hard and long hours. That is me to a tee. Of…
I think I am becoming a local…
I just got home from work and have now sat down to enjoy some food and Netflix and I look at the clock – 10:35pm. What? My first thought? I think I am becoming a local. Coming from the U.S.A. my family and most people I knew would eat dinner…
Tuesday’s Top Ten: Robin Williams
It’s a coincidence, not ironic, that the day after my quarter-life crisis post that someone, Robin Williams, who most of us have all grown up with succumbed to his own crisis, depression. For as long as I can remember, I grew up watching many of his movies, from Aladdin to…