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Sex While Studying Abroad (1/2)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Yes, it does happen. Don't be too alarmed. Don't get too excited either. First, I'd like to make the distinction that sex while studying abroad is a specific category in the ever-so-attractive lifestyle of travel sex. This is not the mile-high club, which is blessed or cursed with the fact that you ...

Four-Course Meal, Four-Language Dinner (1/2)

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Have you ever needed to switch among four languages during dinner? I have. It was loads of fun. I am not being sarcastic. Photo from http://www.thw.coventry.sch.uk/MFL/MFL.gif

How Studying Abroad is to Traveling as College is to Life (2/2)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

...continued from After you arrive in the host country, you might or might not have a representative from your host university or the academic program to receive you. If you do, lucky you. If you don't, you'll just have to find your way to your lodging. If you arrive early, you ...

How Studying Abroad is to Traveling as College is to Life (1/2)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

You know what I'm talking about. It was your first time away from home. The freedom was overwhelming. You didn't have a curfew. You met loads of new people. You might've even needed to cook for yourself or do your own laundry for the first time in your life. But ...

My Hell Week Between China and Costa Rica (4/4)

Monday, April 21st, 2008

...continued from On the taxi ride, I thought I could get some shut-eye, but the driver kept talking to me about how people from Beijing and people from Shanghai have beef with each other because the former is the political capital of China and the latter is the business capital. And ...