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 […]
When Bad Luck becomes your Best Friend
We’ve all had those days where we’ve been riddled with Bad Luck. Sometimes those days can be weeks, or even months. But what to do when Bad Luck, quite literally, becomes your best friend? For the past two weeks, I can absolutely, definitely tell you guys that Bad Luck creeped its way into my life and […]
The Volunteer Series: My Experience
Deciding to volunteer in China as part of my gap year was relatively simple: I knew I wanted to come back to China for a length of time (since I’m originally from China) and I wanted to volunteer as a teacher for the experience. Not only is teaching a potential career for me in the […]
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 […]
The Volunteer Series: TEFL in Photos | Chengdu
For the past two months I’ve been volunteering as an English teacher in Chengdu, China. I taught sixteen classes a week: 10 junior (year 8) and 6 senior (year 11). As part of my volunteer series, I’ve put together a post of my past two months in photos. Included are: some bits of my two-day […]
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 […]
Being homeless. Literally. | Hervey Bay
After being dropped off at our hostel in Hervey Bay (Flashpackers) by the Cool Dingo Tours bus, Alice and I headed out to find something to eat. Quickly realising that there were no small cafés or restaurants nearby, we continued heading in one direction in the hope that we would stumble across something. We were starving […]
Fraser Island Part III | Cool Dingo Tours
If you missed Part I and Part II you can catch them here. Our final day on the island had arrived. After hurriedly rushing down to breakfast and chucking our luggage in the luggage room, we hopped onto the bright pink tour bus and made our way to Lake Birrabeen. Here, I got to try […]