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Traveling does not automatically confer wisdom, or make you a better person. The only guarantee is new sensory experiences for the hedonist in all of us. If you’re hoping for something more meaningful, you’ll have to actively think about the whys of your new environment. Download this episode here(right-click, save as)

Boston? Korea? Maldives? We’ve been bouncing around a lot these past weeks, and Mai can’t keep track anymore. She’s lost in a world of sound…will you pay lots of sponsorship money to help get her back? (Even if she’s rude and talks with her mouth full?) Download this episode here(right-click, save as)

Mai takes an urban escape to New England to escape city life, and she finds herself wandering among the Ivy League…Harvard University and the legacy of American history can be found here in Boston, where the autumn leaves are beautiful and the ice creams are humongous. It’s also a bit windy–beware when listening! Download this episode [...]

Mai is still learning lessons in Americana, but this time she’s left alone to ponder questions of why New Yorkers are so into keeping fit and eating healthy (but aren’t they still so overweight?). Her questions leave her a bit homesick for China, and she wonders where her next move will be… Download this episode here(right-click, [...]

In China’s larger cities, supermarket shopping means Carrefour. Wal-Mart / Sam’s Club, Lotus, Metro, etc. are too few and too far away. And Chinese supermarkets are too small. Carrefour is kicking butt by being both big and located where all the people are. In this episode, Billy navigates the Carrefour maze, a routine activity in [...]

Coming to New York from Kyoto and Beijing, Mai must reevaluate what it means to be American in a city where most people aren’t native. So she decides to join a lesson at an American English school in New York, and with the help of Lucy (our lovely native speaker), Jane (from Japan),Mary & Elena [...]