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The english book, and in general the foreign language, market in China is understandably very small. This is very bad news for most...

Zengcuo’an community is a small fishing village that has slowly become a popular tourist destination.

Christmas in China Christmas in China is at shopping malls and on shopping streets. In Xiamen, its at commercial hubs like China City...

Shapowei is Xiamen's creative center. It provides an inclusive meeting ground and community for locals and tourists.

Since coming to Xiamen I have wasted no time in trying to find my "third place", a place that is not my tiny apartment or the small...

Journal entry #1 Reasons The last time I was in China, I was on the verge of tipping into clinical depression. At the time of my last...

Muizenberg is a small town on the Cape Peninsula, in the Western Cape, South Africa. It is one of the oldest Dutch towns in the area,...

A long long time ago, I had the distinct impression that I should be anything but a gardener or a farmer. Perhaps it was the secluded...

Something surprising happens to the mind when one sees the Cape Town coast for the first time. It might be the blue waters and skies,...

Its been nearly two years since I moved to China to pursue my master's degree. In that time, the extent of my wanderlust within mainland...

When you come from a tropical African country like Uganda, the rain, the red, red soil, and dust are all you know. Life is consistent,...

Here is the thing folks. Don't BE OR ACT like me. Choosing to study abroad should be a personal choice, a well thought out and considered...

Summer in the south of China is an ungodly combination of hot and humid. All the residents at the university and the small towns...

I'm a bit obsessed with old things. I would follow this up with "but not in a weird way", but it does tend to err on the very weird side....

A trip out to Cape Town from Stellenbosch is about an hour by car. To wander the streets of a new city with absolutely no aim but to get...

The backstory THIS WAS THE THING…the BIG THING. The big thing on our family’s South Africa trip To-Do list. However, the appeal for...

I like to think that my family is adventurous. This is true if by adventurous you mean we are not afraid of trying new things, mostly,...

Stellenbosch is perhaps the most disorienting place I have been to. Picture a European countryside, and then uproot that, carve out a...