when do I get my adult certificate?
Since I chose to stay in China when the pandemic first began, for a period of 8-months, 90% of my social circle was gone. Flight cancellations and changing re-entry rules for foreigners meant when we broke up for holidays in January 2020, it wouldn’t be until October 2020 that many of them came back to…
In September I started an online Master’s of Mathematics for Teaching. I’m doing well, learned a lot, and will be taking a break for this next semester. I feel like I’m no longer clear on why I’m pursuing this degree because it links with one of my (many) fears: I worry that I’m bad at…
In February’s finance review I posted that I spent under $200 for that entire month. The major contributor is the COVID-19 quarantine all of China is experiencing. The very blasé summary: I stayed because I don’t like hot beachy places, or spending money, or becoming nocturnal, and I found out other people were staying. Life…
There was a two week period in November during which I woke up at 2-3 am every night without fail feeling anxious. My heartbeat slowly spread until it took over my entire body. In the cool darkness of my bedroom, I wondered if I would be stuck this way forever. People experience anxiety in different…