Category Archives: Journals by asst25

Today was what I feel like could have been a standard time at Williams for me.  Of course, in reality it was nothing like Williams, but it was the most similar experience I’ve had since coming to Hong Kong. In … Continue reading →

I really love coffee shops. There’s something about them that I find really comforting. The atmosphere, the people, the coffee. So it’s natural that we came back to the same coffee shop that we sought refugee in on Friday. But … Continue reading →

Today was a pretty exciting day for me, since it marked the first time I had ever gone to China! As a student who is intending to major in Chinese, this was a large deal for me. Everything was different … Continue reading →

https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/a1ab55932a94d6c01572dd0957b175e3/exploring-hong-kong/index.html This morning, the Professor Annie Chan invited us over to have brunch at her home. It was delicious, a taste of home, with strata, tea, homemade bread, grapes,  and bacon, just to name some of the food. After brunch, … Continue reading →

Without phone service, maneuvering through a city takes a good amount of work. It takes consulting maps, asking for directions, backtracking, counting blocks, looking for landmarks, and waiting for long periods of time for your friends to arrive at the … Continue reading →

Today began with an excellent meal at one of our professor’s apartments on campus. We had delicious bacon, quiche, and fresh fruit and bread. It was a really great morning just relaxing and eating with everyone else. Afterwards, Lee and … Continue reading →

This morning, Professor Chan had us over for one of the best brunches of my life. We sat and chatted in her spacious top-floor apartment in one of the student hostels, ate our way through a cornucopia of freshly cooked … Continue reading →

My day started off with a brunch at Professor Chan’s home, where I had bacon for the first time in weeks. I’m a big fan of bacon, and I found it absurd that until today, I didn’t even notice its … Continue reading →

This was overall a really great weekend where I reconnected with a few friends and spent more time downtown in Central. For dinner one night, we roamed around Central, looking for inexpensive eats with lots of people, eventually coming upon … Continue reading →

Today and tomorrow are research days for the students. Professor Annie Chan, Associate Dean and Director of the Social Sciences Undergraduate Programme at Lingnan who has been a huge supporter of this joint course, took time out of her busy … Continue reading →