While flying was fun and sometimes fast, trains played an enormous role in my travels. From Frankfurt airport’s Fernbahnhof (the long-distance station across the street held up by Brutalist concrete supports), I took an...
Germany, as with any country, has a family of stereotyped foods. Bratwurst, sauerkraut, sausages, schnitzel, and lots and lots of beer, are what typically come to mind when people mention German cuisine. And you...
France’s food culture is embedded in the country. Cuisines range from region to region and town to town. Nice, in particular, is situated on the mediterranean sea and a majority of its cuisine is...
Once you’re in Europe, you suddenly have the urge to get up and travel almost every chance you get. Nice’s airport is the second largest in the country so traveling was extremely easy. However,...
Greetings! Since my last blog post, I have attended more classes and visited the Tamkang University’s official campus location in Tamsui. Today we toured the Yehliu Geopark in northern Taiwan. During our visit to...
While in Taiwan, we visited so many places! We went 89 floors up in Taipei 101, visited several new night markets, ventured to a farm and museum in Yilan, stayed at a very cool...
你好！In Taiwan we traveled to the southern part of Taiwan and visited Sun Moon Lake, an orchid factory, the Chihkan Tower in Fort Provintia along with Fort Zeelandia and the Anping Treehouse in Tainan,...
Being in Taiwan is very culturally immersive and interesting. So far, it has been very encouraging that some of the locals can understand my Chinese after not having taken a formal Chinese class for...
One of the best pieces of advice that I was told from students returning from abroad is to spend time and truly appreciate your host country. Rather than traveling outside of Singapore every weekend,...
Singapore has been the perfect home base for traveling to nearby countries in Southeast Asia! One of my favorite experiences was my trip to Southern Vietnam over my spring break. While my roommates and...