With my thesis defense coming up, my parents decided to visit me in France and have their very first international trip! I planned out the trip a month or two in advance to make sure we could hit a lot of popular spots, so in this post I'll list some of the places we went and things we did.We h…

While trying to escape the cold winter weather of Dijon, I spent 10 days in the South of France with my boyfriend and his family. A month before I packed my bags, Rihoas and I were in discussion about doing a collaboration post to show off some of the items from their brand. When I went to their we…

When I was a kid, I used to read books all the time. I had a library card that I would wear out, with my parents taking my sister and I to the local library so often that I had memorized certain sections. I would borrow multiple books at a time, because I would spend all my time going through each …

Welcome back to another edition of my linguistic study progress! As I showed in my previous post, I'm using a Notion template to keep track of my studies. Feel free to check it out here! This month, I updated the template to now include all labels written in Japanese. This is a minor change but…

I've heard many times that some people are not using Memrise because it 'requires you to pay'. This is totally inaccurate, but many people think this because of the sneaky way Memrise presents their own courses. In this post, I want to show you how you can access Memrise for free, forev…