We Are All Waiting for the Same Rain: A Field Report from Africa
What Comes to Mind When You Think of Africa? What comes to mind when you think of Africa? For a long time, my mind was cluttered with a series of…
She left me the “Eye of Horus”: so-called strangers are nothing more than family members yet to be recognized.
It was June 20th, during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. As a volunteer, I was accompanying dozens of foreign scholars participating in a long-term field project in Suzhou. The morning…
The Rebellion Against Loneliness: An Individual’s Negotiation with the Environment in Studying Abroad — The Ander Interview Chronicles
To watch the interview, please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmHwWcWdsqI&t=357s Nowdays, most people limit their definition of study abroad applications to grades, GPA, and standardized test scores. Yet, few realize a fundamental truth:…
The Madai Trilogy: We Met, We Parted, We Grow
The interview transcript above does not cover our entire conversation, as my carelessness caused my phone battery to die 🪫. Regardless 🤓, I would like to first supplement what we…
City Walk With My International Friends From Mexico
After finishing my previous interview with international students about their sense of loneliness, I began to reflect on the deeper meaning of this project. If the interviews served to document…