CCP Censors CNN

Because my parents are visiting Beijing, I’m taking a break from life on the Bei Shi Da campus, and relaxing in their hotel room. I turned on CNN to see if there had been an update on the foiled terrorist attacks in London. Nothing new. The anchor then started reporting on Hu Jintao’s visit to [...]

Traveling? Bring ChinesePod, not Textbooks

As I was getting ready to leave for three weeks in Europe, I worried about my Chinese falling out of practice before Princeton in Beijing. I wanted some way to keep up my Chinese in Europe. However, because I’d be traveling around the continent by train, I had to pack light and so it just [...]

Back from Europe, preparing for Beijing

I’m back from my three week joyride through Europe. I’ve added a pretty sizable sample of the photos that I took to my Flickr page.
It was a bit daunting to get back to my computer after three weeks and see my Google Reader displaying 100+ unread articles. I spent quite a bit of time today [...]