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I discovered something last night. The Chinese language has a secret language. No, I am not exaggerating, It’s real. Ok I MAY be exaggerating, but in all my years of learning Chinese, I can’t believe I never noticed this. Last week I’m eating lunch with my friends Jenny and Elly. Jenny …
The weirdest thing right now is remembering that I’m the foreigner. I know shocking right? I’ve already realized that on surface level. I don’t look like anyone, My hair products can only be found online, every time I go to the store I’m stared at. I know that on a visual …
I wrote an amazing post. Didn’t save it. I am a mess, on the floor, crying into the darkness- I’m the annoying friend. Well, I should say I’m convinced I’m becoming one of the flavors of annoying friend. I feel like every five seconds, I’m asking anyone I’m around about my …
I talked with a friend here about Trump. This isn’t the first time, a lot of Chinese Students here want to talk about. I can tell someone told them that they were better off not asking, to not cause tension. I was told the same thing. So I usually get …
I have one week. One. Week. Then I’m on a ridiculously uncomfortable plane(trust me on this) for a ridiculously uncomfortable amount of time to a place where I have no comfort zone whatsoever. Do you see where I’m going with this? I’m scared! Excited, but scared! This is the time …
For our final reflection in this class, I’m choosing to go back and write about my favorite project: The Blind Contour on Screen. It’s my favorite not because it has pretty colors, but I found it easy and instinctual in arrangement and color. Originally, this assignment was to just practice …
[‘quote’ counter: 5] Part 1:This is Not Agnes My online(aka Skype) Orientation was this past Tuesday. It consisted of me and 5 other people, 4 of which were female and also skyping in, all of which made up the only American-hosted Students attending DKU Global Undergrad Semester. Out of 60 …
So Final Cut Pro is an application I had a little experience with before this workshop. The first time I worked with it was in Calvin’s previous workshop he did close to the beginning of the year. So this time was a much needed refresher in techniques and tools. Since …
So, it is becoming more and more of a reality that I will be wrought with unwanted hands in my hair and random stares by certain people in the streets of Shanghai. But I’ve recently realize how xenophobic I have been about such a reality. I always put the idea …
In class, we were told about this photographer names Nikki S. Lee. She has 3 main projects she is known for. One titled Parts where she takes photos with people who are close to her (i.e. boyfriends) and then crops out their image from the photo. Leaving the viewer with …
