The IEEC Blog

Having a boring day off and in need of some fresh air? Well, then you should definitely consider a hike from Land's End to Baker Beach. This is a beautiful walk, which also gives you many nice views of the GG-bridge (assuming you're such a sucker...

I don't really know if I can claim this as a favorite spot, as I've only been at Fort Funston once. However, that one time made me fall in love with the place. Several kilometers with trails and windswept sand dunes to explore makes this...

Staying here for almost half a year, I have made up my mind about which local spots I find most beautiful in this city. These are the places I find peace, energy and motivation for new weeks, no matter how cliché that might sound. I...

This semester, for the first time in my life, I took a communication class called "Debate and Argumentation". It was completely different from any class I ever had and one of the reason was somethin I talked about in another post: this class required sujectivity and that...

Working in class and outside with study approximately nine am to ten pm every day for five courses, four in studio, and usually some on the weekends, helping my daughter with homework, she needs a dinner, plan when to go grocery shopping, we need clean...

  My daughter and I were so lucky to be invited to stay with our housemate and her family to have Thanksgiving with them in her aunt's house in Santa Cruz. After doing homework for some days, we drove there on Thursday in a car from...

On Wednesday next week I have my last final at SFSU and the following Monday I’m leaving San Francisco. This semester has gone by so fast and I have learned a lot! And I’m so happy that I decided to study abroad because this semester...

I love Christmas and I absolutely love all the food and candy we eat in Sweden around Christmas. From what I have understood the food we eat on Christmas in sweden does differ a lot from the food Americans eat on Christmas. So when I...

Hi. It's been almost one year since I came to the US. I like San Francisco, and enjoy the city fully. I think California is nice place to live for foreigners because of the multicultural society. In CA, I've never experienced discrimination against Japanese or...

This is a post to say thank you to the person who randomly stood in a coffee shop and drew this picture of me last month. No reason for it, I did not and still don't know him at all. Just a little random act...