After a weekend filled with tourist activities and fun events, we started our assignments on Monday. The first week of work of work was challenging, exciting, and exhausting! It’s hard to explain what it’s like to be thrown headfirst into the business environment of a new culture, but I’ll try my best 🙂 On Monday,…
After so much planning and packing, it’s hard to believe I’m actually HERE! The past 2 days (is that really all it’s been??) have been a complete whirlwind, but I am in Chengdu! Let me give you a recap of my past 48 hours… After some tearful goodbyes, my flight took-off from DC on Thursday…
I apologize in advance if this post is a little all over the place, but that is an accurate reflection of how I’m feeling right now. It’s starting to hit me that I’ll be on my way to China in less than a week. My upcoming departure has encouraged me to spend more time with…
I was trying to wait to post again until I found out more about my CSC assignment. It’s difficult to tell people that I will be working in China for a month without being able to say what that work will be, and I know my team members are just as anxious as I am!…
I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for a while now. For the most part I’m a pretty boring person: I meal prep on Sundays, work 40+ hours a week at a consulting job, attend the occasional happy hour with friends, and snuggle with my puppy watching Netflix on the couch (sometimes my fiancé too…