This past year has been incredible. I can’t imagine my year in Detroit without Challenge Detroit. I’ve made great friends through the program. I’ve also grown so much both professionally and personally through working, living, playing, giving, and leading in the city.
Mango Languages, my host company, has been inspiring me to work hard, study (languages) hard, […]
This month I’ve been working on a documentary photography project with SGI Detroit Lion Heart District.
SGI stands for Soka Gakkai International, a lay Buddhist movement based on Nichiren Buddhism. Three things contribute to the uniqueness of this project. First, Nichiren Buddhism is a very progressive school among different Buddhism schools. Second, there have been a lot of wonderful […]
June 7 Motor City Pride
June 12 Crain’s 20 in their 20’s @ Garden Theater
My friend Evonne Xu was one of the winners this year. Congrats!! (third to left)
June 17 Portuguese Club at Mango and Brazil-Mexico game
June 19 My first time to watch a baseball game, and with Mango!
June 20 Final […]
May 6 Detroit RiverFront Conservancy Community Party @ Dequindre Cut
May 14 Challenge Detroit Interview Trip @ Downtown Detroit
May 18 Tree Planting @ Cody Rouge High School
May 23, Jitterbug @ DIA
May 24 with Couchsurfers Nico (NYC) and Yahdiel (Puerto Rico) @ Corktown
May 28 with Couchsurfer Nadim (Paris, France) @ Belle Isle
May 31 […]
The theme of my April is traveling and trying out new things. I hosted a couchsurfer from Taiwan and couchsurfed in Chicago for five days. One thing that I really like about hosting couchsurfers is that it’s also an opportunity for me to explore the place I’m living in. My surfing experience in Chicago was […]
March 8, 2014 Recycle Here!
My team has been working with Green Living Science on this month’s challenge. To better understand recycling in Detroit and (more importantly) to try the phở truck that recently started coming to Recycle Here! every Saturday, we packed our car with recyclables and visited this busy recycling center.
March 10, 2014 Palmer Park Area
It […]
My February started with the celebration of Chinese New Year 2014, the year of Horse.
Special Friday Fiesta Jan.31, 2014 Mango Languages
Every Friday there’s a fiesta at Mango. Once in a while someone will host a special fiesta. The topics are usually some interesting traditions of different cultures around the world. On January 31 I […]
The first month of 2014 was pretty laid-back for me (except work). With 40 inches of snow, I decided to socially hibernate and fully enjoy playing my Djembe drum at home. When I was not hibernating, I went on a trip in Texas, adventured the North American International Auto Show, and hosted a Chinese New […]
New Year is around the corner, and my monthly recap has reached December.
This month I went to a couple of art galleries and studios in Detroit, among which Russell Industrial Center was beyond my expectation. I went there on an Open House night. Tons of art studios and music studios were open to the public […]
Having experienced a snowstorm and subsequently a 3-day power outage in Connecticut in late October 2011, I feel that Michigan winter has been very benevolent to me so far, allowing me to go to a variety of events in the past month. Here are some of the highlights:
Nov.17 Google Glass, MOCAD
The moment I heard about Google […]