Paper Labyrinth
By Amelia Earnest Like the crowded streets, my everyday routine in Lima is strewn with little bits of paper. Every day I use three combis to get to work. These small, frenetically unpredictable and reckless means of public transportation are preferred only by the thick of heart and the thin of wallet. After leaping aboard and...
Translating Cherkess and Discovering a Diaspora
by Allie Mandeville Throughout my first week in Jordan, one Arabic word in particular befuddled me repeatedly. My neighborhood, my host family, the social club near our apartment, my host siblings’ school – all of these, my host mom explained over and over again, were “Cherkess.” “Cherkess,” she told me in Arabic, and then, embedded...
Chasing Success: China’s Relationship with English
by Kelsey Larson “We speak good English!” The private dining room in Changzhou No. 1 Middle School rattles with the shout, shaking the 22 American students within awake. “We will conquer English!” The roar is coming from the throats of several hundred Chinese students attending the Li Yang Crazy English Camp. Marching to lunch in uniform, they roar...
Chicken Feet and Chopsticks: The Chinese Dining Experience
by Kelsey Larson My first experience with Chinese fine dining came when my host family invited me to join them and one of my host father’s co-workers or a meal at a restaurant. The differences from American dining began immediately with the transport to the restaurant. Traffic bears no resemblance to the orderly, wave-at-your-neighbor pattern of my Montana hometown. Instead,...
Sex and the Metro: Considering a coin flip
By Tao Tao Holmes: Two Metros Meet: Shanghai, meet Delhi. Delhi metro is sleek, cool, and clean, unlike the city in which it functions. Delhi Metro has a separate compartment for women, which means ladies can escape otherwise almost guaranteed sexual harassment. In this temporary safe haven, metro security throws off any men who try...
Consumers Crazy for Cuy: Celebrating the Cuzco Classic
By Amelia Earnest The vicuña, a mountain dwelling mammal of the camel family, is Peru’s official national animal. But though this elegant alpaca-wannabe graces the center of the Peruvian flag and can be spotted scenically munching on grass in the open countryside, the vicuña seems to serve little other purpose to Peru, symbolic or otherwise...
Bleu, Blanc Rouge
by Joy Chen Joy Chen ’13 is in Silliman College. This summer, she is blogging from Paris, France. Contact her at joy.chen@yale.edu.
Digging a Hole in China
by Kelsey Larson “What am I doing here?” I wondered as I stared out the window of my host family’s car as it wove among the streets of Changzhou, China. My hosts chatted in rapid-fire Chinese as I tried to pick out the few words I knew from the waves of unfamiliar syllables. The signs flashing by on the...
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