Dinner time at my house usually consists of us having some sort of news on in the background. Most of the time CCTV. The notoriety of the channel is well known as being the only major news channel that feeds information to 1.3 billion people daily. It is universal knowledge that the channel, like other news channels carries bias when delivering ( Read more... )

I've always been fascinated with translating things I've learned in English into Chinese. I had a lot of fun one night looking up the names of different elements and cell biology in google translator (铀= Uranium, cool huh?) and despite having gotten up at 5 AM this morning to head to work, I still have enough energy at the end of the day to play ( Read more... )

I miss forests, mountains, trails and pine cones. I miss the deep breaths you take when you're out on a trail. One of the great things about living in the Northwest is that mountains are never too far away. Yet, I haven't hiked since last summer's trip to the Redwoods. Increasingly these days, I've felt like I'm surrounded by dreary gray concrete.

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Whenever I come home, I always try to read some of the Chinese magazines my parents subscribe to. My mother gets regular subscriptions to the Chinese version of Reader's digest 读者 (but more mainstream and contains a wide variety of poetry, short essays, and interesting articles). This trip home, she strongly strongly recommended that I read an ( Read more... )

During volunteering today, I had to push an old Pakistani man across the hospital (from 8S to Urology in the Surgeon Pavillion). He had a kind face but very poor eyesight ( Read more... )

I love my TA job ( Read more... )