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…

With Christmas around the corner, now is the time to take advantage of good deals on presents for friends and family. This year, I got inspired by my circle of friends and wanted to try to curate a list of products that I felt fit a particular friends' personality, and then make a Christmas lis…

When I informed friends and family that I would be doing my masters degree in Europe for the next 2 years, the comment I heard the most was that I'll be doing a lot of travelling and I thought, naively, that I would probably be going to a different country every other weekend.

Unfortunately, it…