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.

  • Learning in UW —— organized psyc 101 notes (research)

  • Exciting to start my lesson course in UW!!

    The previous Monday, as I’ve mentioned earlier, I started my summer session learning at University of Washington. I chose three corse, intro to philosophy 100, intro to psychology101, and pre-calculus 120. From the course introduction, they all seems to be pretty basic courses, after taking a week of class, I feel like psychology and philosophy…

  • My plan for the summer

    In March, my parents feel like it will be a waste of time for me if I go back to China and quarantine for 21 days this summer, so they decided that I will stay in Seattle over the summer. My mom found out the the University of Washington has summer program, and she think…

  • Brainstorm written by Daniel J. Siegel

    This week, I just finished Brainstorm written by Daniel J. Siegel. The school counselor recommended me to read this book at the beginning of the school year, because she said this book is really helpful on understanding adolescent and teenage. I enjoy reading this book. To be honest, I feel like this author is at…

  • “I wish to be, a chirping bird, only for a blossom spring…”

    Wish.m4a It’s unfortunate that I can’t upload a video. I only know how to add in picture and files. I think it’s because that I didn’t pay enough, so the website is restricting me from uploading audios or videos. I was performing this song in my school concert with my friend! I was playing the…

  • Eventually done with my notes! More than 50 thousand words…

    Finally! I’m done with my Chinese psychology notes! I mad a mind map for each section, they are too big that I wasn’t able to post them or put them together in a single picture. There are six part of the notes, and in total, they are about 50 thousand characters. I can’t imagine how…

  • INTJ 🤔

    Haha! Hello! I’m a INTJ, I am introverted, intuitive, thinking, and judging. I am called the architect. I’ve heard about MBTI long time ago when I was learning about psychology, and I don’t know what it’s just suddenly popular and everyone’s using MBTI. I never did this test before and I just tried it today.…

  • Some thoughts about China’s covid situation

    Just a few minutes ago, my friend in China told me that she was told not to go to school this morning, because of Covid, all students in that area were prohibited from going to school. They were either sent home or got a notification very early in the morning telling them get ready for…

  • Different perspective of valentines-day🌹

    Unfortunately, I don’t have anyone to date. Fortunately, I’ve been selling flowers this valentines-day and I’ve earned money!! Gosh I’m so proud of myself. This is the note I used to keep in track of my orders. Though since I didn’t thought about posting them by the time I wrote them so they are in…

  • So proud of my Chinese psychology notes!

    I think I should start a Chinese blog or something. I love my Chinese psychology notes so much! They are so comprehensive and so useful! Even though I know that people who’s reading this blog is probably unable to understand my notes, but I still want to post a little bit of them, because they…