Pre-Travel Freakouts: Seventeen Days in China Edition!
Tears poured down my cheeks and into my gourmet hot dog as I sat across from my friend Meg, less than a week before my flight to Beijing and the …
Tears poured down my cheeks and into my gourmet hot dog as I sat across from my friend Meg, less than a week before my flight to Beijing and the …
Is it Dangerous to Tour the Everglades?! “I’m not sure we’re going to survive the Everglades,” I gasped, browsing the Official Everglades Website. “Just listen to these warnings. They’re terrifying!” …
Getting a cheap travel package in exchange for sitting through a Timeshare presentation is a bit like wrestling an alligator. Sometimes you escape, unscathed, and sometimes you get… caught. For …
Disclaimer: I was young and foolish when I made this mistake. You would never do something like this, right?! It was New Year’s Eve of 2008, the sun was setting …
It is difficult to write this because the heat has been broken in my apartment for five hours, and my bones (finger-bones included) are now ice-encrusted. Maybe you’ve heard: we’ve …
Exactly one year ago, I was almost arrested in Bangkok, Thailand for bringing an illegally smelly fruit onto a public train. You can read the whole dramatic story by clicking …
Article #13 in the ESL Student Life Story Project, by Faleh from Saudi Arabia, age 23. My mother was crying and we didn’t know what had happened. I came to …
Blogs are supposed to be honest, so after a bunch of weeks of trying to hide it, let’s be honest here: Things are weird. I suppose it was to be …
Article #9 in the ESL Student Life Story Project, by Jeremy from China, age 20. When I finished high school in China, I went to Singapore to keep studying because …
“I feel terrible for you!” sighed Sherry, watching me lug my suitcase through the sultry New York streets. “I’m so sorry we have no place for you to sleep tonight!” …