In any profession, we are thankful for the weekend.  Teaching at a boarding school, and living with my students/coworkers for 2 years, I feel I am especially thankful for the weekend… It’s the only time I can actually leave work (if it’s a weekend I’m not working of co...

I have officially made it through week 1 in Hangzhou, China.  The program I am working for is an absolute nightmare, and I wouldn't recommend any teacher to sign up. However, instead of getting into those details (which I have already complained far too much about to F...

I have been in Hangzhou since Sunday morning around 1am… Traveling since Friday when Adam dropped me off at the airport around 2:30pm.  I still haven’t beaten the jet-lag… I woke up at 3 in the morning and have been up since.  Luckily, my “hotel room,” which is more li...

“I don’t know why people are so reluctant to say they’re feminist.  Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?”  —Ellen Page

I realize that “feminism” is a scary word for people.  (I may even lose some reader...

I’ve been saying this a lot lately about this place that I’m in. This place that I was so excited to be in two years ago, when I had just graduated and was about to start my “adult life.”  This place that I couldn’t wait to tell people about- that I’d actually scripted...