Tag: Hong Kong
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…
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…
Quarter Life Crisis?
So I have finally made a blog…again. If you have read the “About Me” section, you may know that I have a very bad track record with blogs. But, that is in the past, and as mentioned there, third time’s the charm. Today is a “wondering” post. Everyone has heard…
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…
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…
Quarter Life Crisis?
So I have finally made a blog…again. If you have read the “About Me” section, you may know that I have a very bad track record with blogs. But, that is in the past, and as mentioned there, third time’s the charm. Today is a “wondering” post. Everyone has heard…