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.

  • Intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation, which one is more long lasting? 

    The collaboration with the Cambridge Center of International Research has now reached its one-month mark. Following a series of discussions with the professor, I have finally honed in on a specific research topic. Initially, I had contemplated delving into a cultural study, considering a horizontal comparison of similar experiments or substances across different countries. Regrettably,…

  • 👉 Tour in Seattle

    After my mom posted a moment on her social media, one of her friends who is the mother of my kindergarten classmate contacted her. Then, after two days of chatting, the friend decided she would come to visit Seattle. I will have a reunion with my friend from ten years ago. When Conrad was finally…

  • The second opportunity to collaborate with Oriana Lady’s League

    I just found that I forgot to introduce about Oriana Lady’s League last time. Oriana Lady’s League, Chinese name is 金女性精英群英荟 (jin nv xing jing ying qun ying hui). Focusing on the temperament development of female, is a Chinese organization. The organization provides classes such as model gait, dance, and speech, etc. People can attend…

  • Happy Children’s day and all about education…

    I, as the founder of First Step in Mental Health, are proud to announce that we hosted a collaborative seminar with Oriana Lady’s League, a non-profit organization dedicated to Chinese women, on the topic of parent-child relationships and mental health in Washington. While teenagers are on their path facing the society, there are also several…

  • My first research paper

    For this humanity unit, our project is to create our own research paper choosing a 20th century event as topic. I know at the first minute that I’m definitely going to choose an event that’s from modern China history. The process was easier than I thought, and things went smoother than I imagined. After a…

  • Modern Drama Show: Peking Man

    Yesterday, we performed the famous play, Peking Man, written by Cao Yu, in Bellevue Meydenbauer theater. I joined Seattle Chinese Culture Theater half year ago, performing as Yuan Yuan in this play. However, other people in the theater had already started preparing for this play two years ago, right at the time when covid started.…

  • Info session in Chinese Christianity Church

    Today’s afternoon, I got the chance to provide a brief info session in a Chinese community Christianity Church. I talked to the elder of this church a month ago about how I want to use a little bit of the time at the end of the gathering to talk about my project, and he scheduled…

  • Info session at PET class

    It’s my pleasure that I was invited to attend the closing ceremony of Parental Effectiveness Training class in Seattle. After their graduation, I was invited to give an info session, introducing my non-profit. I feel like I receive some surprise every time I speak about my non-profit in public. After today’s presentation, one of the…

  • About my non-profit: establishing a team and starting social media

    Last Saturday, one of my friend from an organization called Beaver With U, which is a non-profit organization that supports aboard students in Canada, came to me and asked if I have the time to do some share out in their cathedra. I delightedly agreed and planned to share about my non-profit organization. Most surprisingly,…

  • Unit nine: Modern China

    This month, we just finished the unit of modern China at school. I like this unit, I feel like this unit is the one that I payed most attention with, and it’s the unit I spent most time on till now. However, I did saw biases in this unit. What I learned from here is…