Linfield students studying around the world
In my last blog post, I talked about gratitude. And just to be clear, I’m still grateful to be able to study abroad in a country as beautiful and historically rich as Spain. But with spending more time in a foreign country, you take notice of the little differences. While many of those little differences …
Hi! To start, a really good song to understand my current situation is Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Life.” Okay! Welcome! As you might have guessed, today’s blog will be about all of the things you can do INSIDE while corona runs rampant in your city. First! You can drastically change your sleep schedule. My take on …
Hey, Hey, Hey, I’m in my room! Again! How fun! So this won’t be long, it’s just a brief update on the happenings of Coronavirus. Okay so, coronavirus is in Japan (obviously) and there are (I think) over 800 cases and counting. “Scary!” you say, “why don’t you come home?” you follow with. In response, …
Okay everyone I have to be up in three hours and you need some information so let’s go! To finalize my road trip let’s start with Yamanashi. Getting to Yamanashi from Tottori was really crazy because it was supposed to be a 7-8 hour drive that quickly turned into late night, sleep deprived chaos. This …
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AAAAANNND WE’RE BACK BABY! This time we’re heading toward Osaka. First, we went to an onsen in Osaka to have a bath because we decided to sleep in the car (because when Emi and Marina were in Washington we decided to sleep in my moms car that was parked in her driveway on our way …
Hi everyone! So today I’m going to talk about my trip to Hiroshima! Let’s start by saying I am not a morning person. By far my least favorite thing to do is to get less than 10 hours of sleep (I happen to do that every night), and for this trip I woke up at …
Welcome, everyone! (Warning: This might be kinda long.) My name is Alecia Barlow, and I cordially invite you all to join me (virtually) throughout my adventures in Japan and South Korea. This spring semester, I am set to study abroad in South Korea; however, starting early February, I galivanted around Japan for three weeks on …
Well, we’re back baby! I recently returned to Beijing after spending a month in Vietnam! The most drastic change is probably the weather, as Vietnam was in the 80s and 90s every day, and Beijing has snow on the ground. I am so glad to be back in China, the cold weather is actually …
Okay so it’s been awhile. Honestly I have been trying to find things to write about — obviously I have been doing things, but I have found myself so stressed out and angry on a macro scale that I don’t even really understand what the point is of the minute details of my trip. On …
The leaves are changing, the days are getting shorter, and the pollution is getting worse. It’s finally fall! It’s really, really, fall now, and as the temperature drops, so does my motivation to walk 20 minutes to class everyday. Thankfully, China has the perfect thing for me. One of my favorite things about China is …