Towards Wellness:
A personal blog of a Chinese student aboard in the US

Hi! Welcome to my blog!
My name is Yifei Liu, I’m currently a junior student in The Northwest School in Seattle, WA. I am from China, and was aboard in the US for four years already. I loves Asian cultures and psychology. In my free times, I like to read and study about them. In this blog, I will be talking about my personal experiences as an aboard student and be sharing about my psychology notes.

  • Good sight’s always on the flight

    Sunset during flight to SEA and sunrise during flight to SAN. First trip back home after leaving for college. Photographer: Yifei

  • To remember a cute book from a friend

    Thanks to Zhang for her good book How it Works: The Cat, and thanks for the sweet note with the drawing. This is probably the cutest book I have. I smile while I read, not only because of the book or the little cuties in it but also because I remember our good memories and…

  • A brief analysis of data about weight-related concerns and behaviors across ethnicity

    Looking at “Ethnic/racial differences in weight-related concerns and behaviors among adolescent girls and boys Findings from Project EAT” published by Dianne Neumark-Sztainer*, Jillian Croll, Mary Story, Peter J. Hannan, Simone A. French, Cheryl Perry, from Journal of Psychosomatic Research 53 (2002)963-974. The paper compared weight-related concerns and behaviors across ethnicity/race among a population-based adolescent boys…

  • A birthday without birthday cake

    But simply just cakes. Though cakes are all cakes, there always seems to be some difference between “birthday cake” and other cakes we might eat every day, such as “cupcakes”. I don’t know why but this year I didn’t have the impulse to have a significant birthday celebration. So I decided to celebrate a birthday…

  • Welcome to San Diego, welcome to UC San Diego!

    Writing this blog for pretty much my entire high school experience, and now I keep on working on it through my college journey. Hello California, hello San Diego, hello University of California, San Diego! Looking forward to my next four years in this state of sunshine. First dinner in San Diego as a college student.…

  • First official intern, an experience in psychological counseling office

    🎉 Congratulations to myself on finishing my first internship! At the end of June, after the audition, I engaged in a summer internship that works at a Chinese mental counseling office. The office is pretty small, with only around twenty to thirty counselors. The experience had been fun and meaningful to me, and here are…

  • First time visiting another city for a vocal concert!!

    Sodagreen (Taiwan, China)20th anniversary China tour! A vocal concert that does not allow any kind of recording, a vocal concert that’s there for you to enjoy the live. And I absolutely enjoyed it. And I also enjoyed Chongqing! It’s not a completely new city for me, it’s my mother’s hometown, so when my mom came…

  • The Young Elites Progress plan

    A learning and training opportunity hosted by Chaoyang (Beijing, China) talents management bureau. The program has 75 talented students in total, and it was divided into three classes: the smart medical class, the smart economic class, and the cultural business class. I wanted to attend the cultural business class, though the examiner thinks that, since…

  • “Memory, all alone in the moon light…”

    Fortunately chosen to become an audience at the press conference for the Cats’ performance tour after contributing. From the left to the right: Lucy M Barker, Peter McCarthy, the translator. “The same performance will be seen differently by different people, and the musical ‘Cats’, with each cat carrying its own unique personality, life, and memories,…

  • Feedback from a trip to Xi’an

    First things first, Xi’an is a great city that is worth visiting. It is full of history, but also very modern with lots of young people, fun activities, and great food. After going on a well-planned trip and visiting all those famous landmarks, here’s the feedback of my personal opinion on which places I would…