The Bruin Brand

Last week, my friend posted a link on Facebook leading to a website for a UCLA clothing retailer based in London. I figured it would be a great way to start talking about global issues again on this blog, considering that most of my posts have been dealing with my random adventures lately. What really … Continue reading →

Walking Among the Fishes

While we are on the topic of aquariums (check out the post about the Aquarium of the Pacific if you haven’t already), this gives me time to focus on two others that I have visited within the past few years. Even though aquariums can tend to have the same exhibits as each other, they do … Continue reading →

Bridging Local Communities

In my cultural geography class, we’ve been talking a lot about place and region and how certain areas come to be. How are cities and towns arranged in relation to each other and the natural environment? What kind of barriers, whether physical or perceptual, develop to separate people? Who are the individuals who live in … Continue reading →

Strangers on a Train

While studying abroad, there was actually a lot of time for us to go out and explore Shanghai on our own. We didn’t have classes on Mondays, field trips were scheduled for Fridays, and lectures and discussions took place during the mornings in between. There was one Friday though in which a field trip was … Continue reading →

My Love for Mega-Events and the World Expo

The first mega-event that I ever attended was Shanghai’s World Expo in 2010. I was so interested by the concept of having an event that incorporated countries from all over the world that I even wrote about it in my global studies research paper for my study abroad program there. During the five weeks that … Continue reading →