Farewell NOLA
Published by Arjun Juneja It’s 7:03 am and I wake up…not to the usual and annoying sound of my phone alarm, but something different, …
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First Impressions of the Rose City
Published by Grace Chun I felt like a tourist. On my first couple of days in Portland, I felt like a tourist. Everywhere I …
Read moreThis Place Feels Like Home
Published by Melissa White It was another weekday at work. I was going through the list of clients to be seen that day, and …
Read moreThe Twilight Zone: Cape Town Edition
Published by Zara Porter Forget everything you know about South Africa, which I assume is factually limited to apartheid and Mandela. Forget the notion …
Read moreWhere are you really from?
Published by Shreyas Gupta I was born in post-apartheid South Africa and moved to the US within months of 9/11. My childhood adventures in …
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The Local-Foreigner
Published by Young Park Why do I feel so comfortable here? Standing on the tram during my daily morning commute, I watched the familiar …
Read moreI think I’ve taken “home” for granted.
Published by Scott Liu This isn’t a post about how much I miss home. This is a post about how my conception of “home” …
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Turtles and Magnets
Published by Youlim Kim In January 2015, a paper published in Current Biology found evidence of loggerhead sea turtles using the Earth’s magnetic field …
Read moreFeeling Like China is Home
Published by PamelaSurran This week was a great week! For the first time, I felt like life here in China felt like my …
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