Asia

Heading to Bangkok’s bustling streets? The Full Moon Party on the beach? The mountains in Chiang Mai? Diving in Ko Tao? Welcome to Thai class:...

I still get so excited when post comes through my letterbox. I’ll run down the stairs imagining that I’m receiving a love letter from someone...

Still waiting for the kind of future depicted in The Matrix (but without the energy harvesting robots, y’know?) wherein you load a file in your...

Not to get all Subtle Asian Traits all up in here, but I’ve become more and more obsessed with the Asian ambrosia, boba. If you...

I saw the movie Memoirs of a Geisha a few plane rides ago. Wanting to learn something about the city and the culture I would soon be...

If you’re lacking the funds or time to make it to another country, grab a good book that will ~transport~ you to another world. Reading...

One of the delights of Chiang Mai, Thailand (and there are many), is that as you wander through the unmarked streets, smog lovingly stretching across...

There is truly no greater pleasure than going to a country and eating the food it’s famous for, especially if you’ve only had the bastardized...

No shade to France and Italy, but let’s talk about some other awesome countries worth considering if you’re interested in studying abroad. I spent my...

A year ago, I embarked on my scariest adventure yet, learning Chinese. Shout out to childhood me, refusing to go to Chinese school and trying...

In February 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un descended on the city of Hanoi, Vietnam for a second face-to-face...

After painstakingly filling out three personal essays, providing all of my social security information, and wheedling two letters of recommendation out of professors about how...