As the mini bus headed south on the twisty turny road from Pai to Chiang Mai a subtle smile creeped into the corners of my mouth. I was listening to Ride by Mako Road which reminds me of Max, so maybe that’s why. It had been 2 weeks since we’d in Myanmar and within a… Continue reading 27.12.2019
Author: Jodie Warren
I'm a Theatre graduate who is about to go and teach children in China how to speak English!
19.12.2019
Thailand is a place I’ve wanted to visit ever since Year 5 when a group of people visited our school to talk about the Boxing Day Tsunami that killed hundreds and thousands of people. I remember sitting in the gymnasium, two rows from the front, listening closely to the god awful natural disaster that had… Continue reading 19.12.2019
2.12.19
Writing on 24th November: Days filled with coffee and nothingness, reading and overthinking, Myanmar perhaps hasn’t been kind to my extroverted self. Whilst I have been able to find some pure and beautiful souls along my way I have just been a little bit bored of pagodas. As someone who has not yet built the… Continue reading 2.12.19
16.11.19
It’s been a week since I departed from the country that defined the past two years of my life. I’m not sure my brain has processed the reality of not working for 8 hours a day 5 days a week with 18 hyper energetic children but, I don’t feel any negativity towards being in a… Continue reading 16.11.19
28.10.19 – Seoul
Fuck me October has lasted forever, it feels like bloody ages ago that Spencer and I were in the city of funky cafés and colourful buildings. Seoul was fantastic in lots of ways. I have visited Seoul before but I wasn't able to do all of the things I wanted, in fact I didn't do… Continue reading 28.10.19 – Seoul
9.10.19 再见中国
My time in China is swiftly coming to an end (32 days to be exact) and whilst I’m gutted to be leaving behind wonderful friends, kids and teacher, I am so fucking ready to get out. The fact was - and still is - that my first boss fucked me over by sabotaging my application… Continue reading 9.10.19 再见中国
30.6.19
The last time you heard from me (was a while ago now) I told you about Beijing Wave's inaugural event "This Is Not Consent", an event using the topical issue of consent and sexual assault as a means of education. On Monday the 24th we'll be hosting our second event - a screening of the… Continue reading 30.6.19
北京Wave – 21.4.19
My life in Beijing is much like driving in a big city, sometimes the roads are clear and you can drive full speed and have total freedom and other time it's choka-bloc and you barely feel like you're moving. I've barely been able to breathe, let alone find the time to write a diary entry… Continue reading 北京Wave – 21.4.19
Vienna 11.2.19
So, now that I'm back in Beijing I thought it best to wipe away the two-week-old dust that has been gathering on my laptop and get to work on relaying my time in Vienna to you. It was so fucking sick. It was one of those weeks where you want to go back and hit… Continue reading Vienna 11.2.19
29.12.18
Monday will be 1 year since my arrival in China. On that day I touched down in my apartment (45 minutes from the city centre) at around 4:30pm with the help of a guy named Hugh. There were 3 other Chinese residents in that place who spoke no English. He took me out to get… Continue reading 29.12.18
