The last time I was on a plane which was more than a couple of hours was my flight back from Beijing last June. I spent most of the flight sleeping and resenting the fact that I was flying back home after a seven-month trip. I really, really didn’t want to get off that plane […]
Learning Mandarin intensively | My Experience
I am currently six weeks through university and the majority of what I have been doing is learning Latin intensively. I have one hour every single day at 9am sharp (apart from Thursdays, thank god for Thursdays!) with a class of about ten others. Studying Latin intensively makes me reflect on my time studying Mandarin intensively. […]
If We Were Having Coffee… | Vol. 7
If we were having coffee, I would tell you that I’m currently sat on my flight back home to London. After 7 months of being away, it’s finally time to return home and end my gap year adventures. I really don’t want to come home (no, seriously) but there are a few things I will be looking […]
If We Were Having Coffee… | Vol. 6
If we were having coffee, I would tell you that I’ve actually moved out of the homestay I previously mentioned. The mother was actually really troublesome and we ended up clashing and having several problems. One of those problems being that the mother didn’t do anything at all when her daughter almost broke my Macbook – not […]
If We Were Having Coffee… | Vol. 5
If we were having coffee, the first thing I would tell you is that I hate seeing my last three blog posts being this feature because – to me – it just shows that I haven’t been putting in the effort I want (and should) be doing, sighhhh. But that’s all about to change! I have […]
If We Were Having Coffee… | Vol. 4
If we were having coffee, I would tell you that I have spent waaay too much time on YouTube this week watching TED Talks and random other videos. Watching so many inspired me to finally get down to editing some of my gap year footage {I vlogged my entire time in Australia and Bali}. So I’ve spent […]
If We Were Having Coffee… | Vol. 3
If we were having coffee, I would tell you that this week we had lunch with the school’s headmaster. We were driven to a restaurant about twenty minutes away from the school in the mountains where we feasted on the local cuisine. The Chinese like to toast a lot so we were constantly clinking glasses […]