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.

Returning back to China!

I miss China and my home so much😭😭😭 Since I made the decision that I’m not going back to China for my summer vacation, my dad agreed with my strongly demand about going back home for my mid-winter break. I don’t know why, maybe because I haven’t been home for too long or I grew…

February 27, 2023
My non-profit organization: First Step in Mental Health

January 23, 2023
Happy Lunar New Year Everyone!

On the iPad it’s the opening ceremony of live lunar new year party presented by CCTV. sugar calabash（冰糖葫芦）: Have a “red” (jubilant) and “round” (gathered with family) year. fried fish（煎鱼）: “Fish” in Chinese have the same pronunciation as “remain”. We usually cook fish for new year eve, but we won’t eat all of them, we…

January 21, 2023
Celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year on my own

Since my mom just went back to China two weeks ago, and since my roommate got covid I can’t go back to live in the dorm, I am going to celebrate this new year by myself, for the first time of my life. I never celebrated new year by myself before. The lunar new year,…

January 20, 2023
Learning in UW —— organized psyc 101 notes (life span)

December 27, 2022
My favorite psychology branch! Social psychology!

Finally I got to my favorite branch of all! Social psychology! hooray! I feel like if I’m going to do something that’s related to psychology in the future, I will probably be studying social psychology. that was so interesting! By the way, this is also the last post in this section that’s related to learning…

December 3, 2022
I plan for starting a non-profit organization

I am planning on starting a non-profit organization! I never thought that I will be able to start a non-profit organization. I always feel like starting some sort of organization is really far from me, they sounds difficult. Until this week, I saw a video from a Chinese social media, a girl sharing out about…

November 27, 2022
Learning in UW —— organized psyc 101 notes (thinking & intelligent)

November 12, 2022
Learning in UW —— organized psyc 101 notes (memory)

November 6, 2022
Learning in UW —— organized psyc 101 notes (therapy & treatment)

October 29, 2022