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10 Days Alone in China

January 3, 2016Heather Lana Leave a Comment
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You know when I posted about going solo more often? Well I am proud to say that I am actually doing it. A little backstory, I originally planned on spending my break between semesters here in China traveling to different… Continue Reading →

Planning, Study Abroad, Travel adventure, Alone, excited, hangzhou, shanghai, solo, suzhou, travel, zhuhai

Heres to a Good Year

January 2, 2016Heather Lana Leave a Comment
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I wonder how many times in my life have I written a goal down and never completed it? Most likely I forgot what I planned almost immediately and quickly lost the paper or format on which I wrote it down.… Continue Reading →

Planning, Study Abroad, Travel chinese, goals, Happy, life, planning

To Spain and Beyond

December 7, 2015Elle Kehres 1 Comment

After a lovely few days spent in Edinburgh, Scotland and the forests of England with my mother, it was back home to Sheffield for one night before I was off again. I took a train to the lovely city of… Continue Reading →

Travel beautiful, friends, lost, oops, spain, travel

Thoughts on Going Solo

November 18, 2015Heather Lana Leave a Comment

I have been AWOL these last few months because I have not been able to access WordPress at all. It is technically banned in China so I have to use my VPN and that doesn’t always work. Regardless I feel… Continue Reading →

Study Abroad, Travel adventure, Alone, learning, solo

A Glimpse into Ireland

November 9, 2015Elle Kehres Leave a Comment

Hello all! Sorry it has been so long since my last check-in. Everything has been going quite swimmingly over here in not-so-sunny England and a lot as happened as of late. The biggest of all being my five day solo-trip… Continue Reading →

Travel adventure, Ireland, solo, Tired, travel, trip

5 Reasons to Learn a Language

June 3, 2015Heather Lana Leave a Comment

Often in America we grow up being taught Spanish or French without much thought. Spanish is the first language that school districts choose to teach and it is the second most widely spoken language in the U.S. beaten only by… Continue Reading →

Travel heather, language, money, travel

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