A Park With No Trail

Day 6 The cool thing about this break compared to my previous one was that this time around all the Light Fellows in Korea were basically all at one place. In turn, we had the same vacation time. Miriam ended hanging around Taiwan the same…

3 Peaks, 2 Towns, 1 Coast

Day 4 I got a handful of hours of sleep in me. I had plans fall through, which led to my chaotic sleep schedule. You know, whatever for adventure. The coming crazies aside, today looked like it was going to be a good day. Like…

Week 17: A Mountain of Personality

One thing I kept on looking forward to after moving into to my host family’s place was the climbing I would get to do with my host dad. With the whole retirement thing working out for him, he’s got plenty of time to chill with…

Fuji Overnight

Waking up, I originally intended on going to the supermarket as early as possible to buy my stock of food to devour for the overnight climb. By some strange turn of events, I woke up earlier than the store opened. I probably should have checked…

Week 10: Fights, Fuji & Film

Sunday morning, homework still left over from missing a few days of classes from Ramadan struggles and an apparent lack of motivation after being bogged down by so many repetitive class hours. To make matters worse, it was the first time I missed the weekly…

Week 7: Am I Getting Lucky?

Lord Almighty, why must there be such an evil like tests to exist? Now, outside the walls of Yale, I felt a little more free from the standard liberal arts curriculum by delving into language learning and self-teaching. But, lo and behold, one can never…