Asia Archives - Page 23 of 31 - My Family Travels
Article
Ni Hao

In the summer of 2009 my fellow orchestra dorks and I went on an adventure to the exotic world of China.  We resided there for two weeks without air conditioning or a westernized toilet in sight. ...

Read More    3 min read

Article
Jaunt to South Korea

  In February of 2008, I hopped across the pond, from my temporary home in Japan, to South Korea, to visit my friend Emma who...

Read More    4 min read

Article
Medicine, Philanthropy, Perseverance, and Beauty

Traveling is exciting, regardless of where you're destined.  And doing it solo is even better.  Lost in the clouds, disconnected from the mayhem on the ground,...

Read More    5 min read

Article
Southbound Train Leaving Beijing

48 hours in a sleeper car is a very.  long.  time.I’m on a two-day long train ride headed south from Beijing to Yunnan Province.  It’s a huge trip, two weeks in Southern China...

Read More    2 min read

Article
Chinese (updated)

A shy junior boy silently slips into room 206, staring at the floor, avoiding others’ gazes as he does. He is immediately taken aback by the state of the room. As if occupied by feuding siblings,...

Read More    3 min read

Article
Korea’s Demilitarized Zone

Read More    3 min read

Article
The Other Face of Japan

When many people think about Japan, what is usually the first thing to cross your mind? Robots, school girls in sailor outfits, sushi, et cetera. For the longest time, those images crossed my...

Read More    4 min read

Article
What is Too Much Poverty?

Last summer I saw something that completely shocked me. I witnessed a man attempting to unclog a flooded street in Dhaka, Bangladesh. That doesn’t sound too shocking, but given the circumstances,...

Read More    3 min read

Article
From the Great Wall to the Berlin Wall

My friend and I had been living in China for two years when we decided to take the long way back to the States. Instead of flying from China back to the United States, we decided to do what we would...

Read More    6 min read