Downtown Eastside Vancouver
Hold your bag. Keep listening. Don’t stare. Eastside Vancouver. The ‘forgotten community’. That area you’re warned about as a tourist....


"Oh Canada"
Wait, I’m writing about week two…how did that happen!? Time is flying by, but I suppose time really does fly when you’re having fun! I’m...


Finding Myself in an Office
It’s a 9-5 work day. I always told myself that I would never succumb to an office job, where I envisioned nothing more than sipping...


So Here You Go, to the Thames and to the Rain
When I landed at London Gatwick airport (as I later learned from a flattmate, the "red-headed stepchild" of Heathrow), I was probably in...


Tubing, deceptive price-tags & Chad Hogan
Surely that’s not week 2 of 10 over already. Rewind to the end of last week and the ‘Innovator’s JumpStart’ event I attended held at one...


'Look Right, then Left'
Exactly two weeks ago today, I was finding myself boarding a flight to the UK for the first time,where everything is backwards because...


"Send me on my way"
“Send me on my way” by Rusted Root comes on my ipod as my train pulls into Ottawa station. Anyone would have thought I had planned it!...


July 2, 2015
Finally, a cool & rainy day with no activities planned. A perfect combination to write while I wait for my laundry cycle to finish....
The beginning...
Rewind your mind back to February. Midterms, 2 feet of snow, the Superbowl, and of course the ever so daunting, ‘where the hell am I...


settling into my first week @ monwel.
cardiff city centre. so here ends my first week in wales -- my three-day (...or, well, two and a half, if we’re interested in being...