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Monday, February 3rd, 2025

Celebrating Chinese New Year in Sydney

This week, I got the opportunity to celebrate Chinese New Year in Sydney, and it was surreal. I visited Chinatown, and the entire place was decked out with decorations and lots of red everywhere. It felt just like my grandparents’ neighborhood during the festive season in Beijing. There were red lanterns hanging all over, crowds of people wearing red, and even this really cool balloon shaped like a Chinese lion from the lion dance. Since it’s that time of year, I had to eat a metric ton of noodles. I think I ate noodles at least five times this week. […]

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Sunday, January 26th, 2025

Week 2: Reminder of home

This week has been a blast. I’ve always been hesitant about getting into the water or getting into a boat and I’ve decided that it’s finally time for me to conquer that fear. I went onto the ferry and the wind hitting my face has helped me realize that boats aren’t that bad. I think I’m going to conqueror my fear of water and finally learn how to swim. I’ll make sure to update you in the my progress next week.  This week has been full of me trying different things. I visited the Chinatown night market this week and […]

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