While many of us have been recovering from Midterms in the last few weeks, The San Francisco Giants have been battling numerous teams in the Major League Baseball 'post-season.' Last night they emerged victorious after sweeping away the Detroit Tigers in four straight games. Needless...
Answer: Three (or more correctly four). Three people need to be foreigners. More specifically there needs to be one Australian, one German and one French person. There also needs to be one American bus driver to scream instructions at the foreigners. San Francisco buses have bike racks...
I've spent the last few weeks trying to come to terms with the huge increase in reading and writing assignments while also having some semblance of a social life. Between all of this however I have managed to see some spectacular sunsets, theres something quite...
Looking for a place to live in San Francisco is a mighty task. We’ve all been there, we know what it feels like to send out ten emails a day and receive no reply. 'Have I got nothing to offer as a housemate?' You start...
On Sunday, I ventured out of the city of San Francisco. Catching a bus and two trains to meet my friends in Berkeley, before driving an hour northwest to get to the Bear Valley Visitor Centre. We planned to hike part of the Point Reyes National...
The Early Days. Sitting out the front of a Vietnamese sandwich shop, munching down a delicious, Americanised equivalent of the street sandwich dished up on the footpaths of Hanoi. You notice a girl with both sides of her head shaved, the remaining hair kind of...
I was dragged almost kicking and screaming from my house by fellow blogger Jodie on Monday for a day hiking. Hiking involves exercise, so this is not something I looked forward to! We met on her hill, the biggest one for miles! The plan was...
As per a certain IEEC council member's request both written and face to face (more specifically yesterday night at TNS, haha, you know who you are!), here comes my first post from San Francisco. Which you may have noticed; I'm not a local. Actually, I...
Local San Franciscans will let you know that the Sunset is lying. You don’t usually see the sunset in Sunset, they say. The sunset this twilight proved them wrong, even if it is the first I have had the pleasure to watch from my hill. Usually...
So, why do I love America? I could name so many things! For example the fact that the people at the market where I always shop already knew me after 3 visits, and they’re just so nice! Back in Amsterdam I went to the same...