This website is about travel, and all the learning benefits that the journey of travel brings with it. It’s about breaking out of the normal daily routines and venturing out into a new world of different people and cultures. It’s about experiencing the world we live in, beyond the confines of our homes that we are [...]
Freedom
My concept of freedom is something that really moves me. It’s the driving force behind a lot of my personal development work, and is something I strive to incorporate into my life every day. Travelling is something which really helps me progress in this area, as I encounter many people who live with degrees of [...]
I realize that I haven’t shown enough of the surrounding areas of where I live in China. So I’ve decided to upload a photo gallery.
China has very contracting areas in close proximity. There are new parts with high rise buildings, huge government offices, statues and artwork all within a few minutes walk of old run [...]
Today we headed out to the ChimeLong Paradise themepark in Guangzhou. I went with 4 American teachers and 1 Phillipino teachers and 3 Chinese TA’s. They are all awesome people who I get along really well with.
The theme park was smaller than say Six Flags or Wonderland but it had some really fun rides and [...]
Keeping ‘Face’ In China
One of the hardest things for me to get used to or to accept during my time in China so far is this deeply rooted concept in the locals of keeping face. To the Chinese people keeping face in public (meaning never embarrassing or dishonoring your image) seems to be one of [...]
“… and so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It’s unspeakable. And yet, you know when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we’ve connected, and we think that we’re understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might [...]
Whoever first came up with the saying “Seeing is believing” had it a little backwards. The truth is, reversing the phrase so it reads “Believing is seeing” is actually more true for how things work.
Information Processing
Our brains work in mysterious ways, but one thing we do know is that we take in far more information [...]
Depending on who you speak to, you can get some interesting reactions from people when you bring up any topic related to personal development. I remember at one point a few years ago when I was giving advice to a friend and his response was “Man that sounds like that weird self help bullshit.” It’s [...]
So October 10th was my birthday and the first one I ever had while in another country!
Initially the day was going to be really uneventful, all of my friends usually have to work all day long on Saturday (8am-8pm) and then they need to wake up at 8am the next day as well, so I [...]
Yesterday I was introduced to some new friends. There is Gill an American, and 3 Canadians, Tim, Marty and Li who was born in China but lived in Canada for most his life. They are all around 45? Years old and are fun to hang out with. They are very friendly and cool down to [...]
