Hi everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas, filled with family, friends, and good food. I've been back in Boston for about a wee...

I got back to Paris yesterday after a week-long vacation in the French Riviera. It really was the vacation I had been dreaming about in the ...

All the exchange students at Peking University are allowed to take "cultural immersion" classes: calligraphy, Chinese painting, Ch...

The past couple of weeks have felt like a whirlwind. I haven't had much "downtime", but somehow my higher level of activity h...

For the six weeks that I've been on campus so far, I have literally yet to see even a slightly overweight French student. Coupled with t...

Gobi Desert! October 1st is Independence Day in the PRC, or the day that the monarch fell and communism began. To us international students,...

Dia dhuit, is ainm dom Lucy, which in Gaelic (or Irish, as all real Irish folk would call it), means 'Hello, I am Lucy.' It's al...