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Cornwall pt. 3: Penzance, and a glimpse of St. Michael’s Mount
On the way back from St. Ives and Land’s End, we made a quick stop at Penzance, just to see ‘how it looks’. It looked quite like St. Ives, actually, if you look at one side. We didn’t do much in here. We just walked on the pavement along the beach, captured the typical Cornwall…
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Saturday Night
Okay, let’s take a break from the Cornwall posts (which is nowhere near the end). Last Saturday we made a potluck dinner for the second time, this time with more people. The more the merrier! We came to Alex’s, and that place was packed with people from all around the world. France, Venezuela, Mexico, Slovakia,…
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Cornwall pt. 2: Land’s End
Wow, I’ve put this off for too long. It’s been busier than usual in here with all the classes and assignments. So here’s the second part of the Cornwall trip. After St. Ives, we made a stop at Land’s End. The entrance looked like a recreational park for children with no hints of the sea…
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Cornwall pt. 1: St. Ives
I lived my childhood in a fantasy of being one of Enid Blyton’s characters, with Famous Five being my favorite series. I read the books again and again, and took all the description about England’s countryside in an attempt to form a vivid imagination about it. Then last week, out of the blue, I…
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Two years ago, a bunch of friends came at midnight with a cake, smeared it to my face and pajamas. A year ago, I celebrated it with these people, with an hour karaoke session and a slice of Oreo cake. Today, it’s only me and a stack of books in the Hartley Library, my favorite…
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Hello from Southampton!
It’s been a week since I arrived, and I still have my stuff unpacked, because I’m too busy going around (or I’m just being lazy as usual. Ahem). I wake up everyday to grey sky, and wish that the sky could be blue, at least once in a while. And then it was, for a…
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