Humans of: Abroad

Being abroad is never just a simple relocation, but rather a reconstruction with burning ruptures and undercurrents of pain.

What She Carried From the Window

“I watched my homeland fade away out the window.” For Isabella, the memory of leaving Venezuela is not a distant image she can easily place behind her. It is still close: the feeling of boarding a plane, watching the land below grow smaller, and knowing that returning would not be simple. "I would say when I left my country and traveled to the US," she said. "I remember boarding the plane and leaving Venezuela, knowing I wouldn’t be able to come back for many, many years."

Alana Shi

Jul 294 min read

Being a Polyglot

Ms. Nancy had been an English teacher at my school for two years. Despite Ms. Nancy’s professionalism in literature and linguistics, all...

Adelina Yang

Aug 15, 20243 min read

Chapter Introduction

Perhaps at some stage in our lives, we had all been a “foreigner” once: migrating to another country, studying abroad, or even moving to...

Adelina Yang

Feb 17, 20242 min read

Humans of: Costa Rica

I know, shipping 200 teenagers from all over the world into an IB school in an island country in Central America sounds like a crazy Lord-of-the-Flies-ish social experiment. But luckily, none of the plots went like Lord of the Flies.

Semillas: Indigenous Women are Seed Women

“The project is like a pig,” Lourdes described how the Boruca Indigenous Women Artisans Association So Cagru operates, “To participate, you have to feed it. If you want to take something from it, like a pig’s leg or head, then the pig would die.” So Cagru partners with the Costa Rican NGO Diwo Ambiental This vivid analogy, shared on the first day of our Anthropology trip at the Boruca Indigenous Reserve, captured the community’s essence of collective care. Nestled in the Sou

Bella Wang

Feb 173 min read

Capi Capi: Rejoiced in Resistance

This is not merely an account of the Maleku community but also a reflection of us as novice ethnographers who find ourselves constantly...

Bella Wang

Mar 15, 20253 min read

The Queer Preacher

Back home in Venezuela, all his friends call Jatniel by his middle name, David. For him, the name Jatniel, picked by his parents from the...

Chloe Wang

Mar 26, 20243 min read

Humans of: Connecticut

This is America — not just the highways, skyscrapers, and the chase for more, but something quieter

Chapter Intro

We wander somewhere between wheat fields and winding rivers in the summer, pass sugar maples and quiet pumpkins as fall settles in, count...