The potential to miss our biggest and best opportunities is part and parcel of life. It's finite nature, our mortality, is what makes life worth living to the absolute full. Knowing I have missed past opportunities, and could let future chances pass me by, fuels my ambition and makes me work harder to achieve the [...]
Tag: Travel
A year in a sunset
Personification is one of those literary devices we learn about early on, like similes and alliteration. It’s just a word we use to describe other words, and most people won’t use it after they escape the hellhole that was GCSE English Literature. But as I looked out from the train this evening, over the last [...]
New Year: Older, wiser, newly improved you
I’ve reached the end of the year feeling a little lost. I’ve let myself get comfortable in what I am doing right now, which is unfamiliar territory for me and therefore a little unnerving. It’s times like these we need a reminder of what we’ve achieved, what we’ve weathered and what we’ve enjoyed. Looking over [...]
Dance photographer Joe Lambie
I am lucky enough to be working in a job I truly enjoy doing, and one of the coolest things I have got to do so far is phone other dance lovers around the world. I have now spoken to people in Hungary, Italy, New York, Ottawa, Seoul, Sao Paulo... the list goes on. A [...]
Interview: Chinese Times UK
This is an interview I did in July about the Beijing Student Forum 2013, which was published in the Chinese Times, in Chinese of course. 1. Why were you interested in the UK-China forum and Generation UK Campaign? I was interested in the UK-China Student Forum in May this year because I have a deep-seated [...]
British Council Student Forum 2013
When I set off from London on my way to the 2013 Student Forum in Beijing I didn’t know what to expect. I had a Chinese visa in my passport and a few pages of information about the itinerary of the week; it all seemed very formal and businesslike, and I wasn’t sure I even [...]
Hugo of St. Victor, qtd. in Edward Said, ‘The Mind of Winter’.
“The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is a foreign land. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has [...]
Sofa-surfing
Six and a half weeks ago the lease on my room at university ended. Since then, I have been nomadic (or homeless, whichever way you want to look at it). I have gradually been reducing my possessions, not by throwing them away as my inner anti-establishment hippie would like to, but by taking/sending them to [...]
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