The IEEC Blog

As a San Francisco resident you HAVE to visit Dolores Park. It’s a really nice park perfectly suitable for hanging out with friends. During the end of fall and winter it might be too cold to sit there, but during summer and spring it is...

Is it just me, or does San Francisco lack the festive spirit of Chrimbo? Maybe it’s because this is a fast pace city and people don’t have time to sing carols, or perhaps Christmas just isn’t cool enough for San Fran. I don’t know, but...

How do people find the time to enjoy living in San Francisco and keep up to date with work without depriving their bodies of sleep or food? If anyone reading this has successfully managed to find the time to accomplish all of these things then...

Through a series of slippery slopes, scantily clad street jogging and carnivorous disposition, I found in my lap, the gleaming offer to go back to where it all began, the Independant on Divis, to fill my ear things with a new passion. Twas several years...

I've been blessed to count a heady mix of expats as my friends since clambering about Frisco yum yum. Among the hip swingin, beer sippin, accent mockin cultural exchange that is, there is also a comfort in our collective exposure to American culture. What we givin...

"Wanna come to a timeshare in Lake Tahoe?" Barring renal failure, a tryst with an opera singer or a one off rave headlined by Darude at the Palace of the Arts, there is only one way to answer that question. Packing light (in volume and fabric thickness)...

Should my blog find keen readers, whom find themselves famished for my prose betwixt my installments, you may know be aware I had the good grace of snagging a ripper abode not a hop, skip and a jump from the magicLand of Dolores Park. My...

After two hours of transit, a flurry of dis and reembarking, winding down 2 lane roads through forests and by the still California drink, I arrived in Bolinas. What followed was a weekend that among other things, had the vexing task of discerning fact from...

Being an exchange student means that you meet a lot of students from all over the world. And even though we spend most our time speaking English, I have tried to learn a little bit from the different languages my friends speak. I think it is...

My first trip outside of San Francisco this fall was to Yosemite. The beautiful nature park really took my breath away, and it is the place I think I have heard most people say that they really loved. I went there by car, it is about...