Helsinki Cooking Diaries + Grocery Buying Guide

During our exchange in Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, cooking has been an essential part of our daily lives! My roommate and I were cooking religiously almost every day (we ourselves were shocked at...

DATE 2019 Week 6: 龙井村(Longjing Village), training for 黄山(Huang Shan)

Longjing Village Longjing village or Dragon Well Village is known for their tea and their plantation tea that are open to the public for them to hike. The difficulties of the hills range from a...

Week 5 Graduate Art Exhibition

The ZJU staff took us to the China Academy of Art to look at the exhibition of the works done by their graduate students. The campus was extremely large and there were exhibitions all...

Week 11 – Visit to Cheongju

Had an amazing weekend in Cheongju with Kyungha's family. We (Jacob & myself) were hosted by her family living in Cheongju and we had a great weekend with her family. Day 1: The 3 of us...

ALP Week 6 – Halfway Through ALP!

Time really flies when you’re having fun. I’ve already been in China for 6 weeks and I will only have another 6 more weeks to enjoy myself here. The weather was not great this...

It’s a 3 weeks’ worth of RECAP!

Hi there! You might be wondering, 'Wait a minute, why is there only 1 post from this person so far?' Well, truth be told, I had been having so much fun in China that...

Week 3: Bracing for Typhoon Mangkhut

On 16th September 2018, Typhoon Mangkhut slams into Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Observatory issued typhoon signal 10 which was the highest warning level. Prior to the arrival of the storm, warnings were issued to...

[WEEK 00] 01 | HELLO HANGZHOU 你好杭州

20170506 Saturday, 6 May 2017 01 | HELLO HANGZHOU 你好杭州 We were told to report at 0620 at T1 but I only managed to finish packing at around 0320 which meant that I had less than...

DATE2019 Week 2!!

Week 2 -- Hangzhou, Shanghai Now that we have ventured into the second week, we have become more settled into life in China and more daring to explore places that we have not been to....

GLP 2016 WEEK 3

We started to draw up concept designs for our boat. I will not reveal just yet what it is — for dramatic effect at the end of the programme, after testing our boats. This also...

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