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Schwarzman Scholars, Class of 2018 - Thanksgiving and Christmas
China: Beijing (November - December 2017)
I feel words aren’t really necessary and the pictures tell the tale! Spending time with the Schwarzfam, the Jamaican fam and just awesome friends.
One College, One Family, One Dream
– Stacey-Ann Pearson
Schwarzman Scholars, Class of 2018 - It’s Already November
China: Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province and Beijing (November 2017)
1 module and nearly 3 months in, November presented a number of firsts in travel, professional opportunities and personal awareness. The month started as usual, classes, lectures, guest speakers, dinners and loads of conversations (spanning personal life goals, observations from the 19th National Party Congress of the Communist Party of China, foreigner’s experience in China, language progression and so on). But then mid-month, it was time for the long-awaited Deep Dive, the programme sponsored, educational trip to somewhere far from Beijing!
After learning about the amazing backstory of China business mogul Jack Ma (Alibaba cofounder) and the tech evolution of the city of Hangzhou, I knew I had to be on the excursion headed to this southern beauty. 12 hours after leaving Beijing, I - and ~40 other scholars and staff - arrived Hangzhou. There were a few immediately striking differences between Hangzhou and Beijing, the most obvious being warm weather and unbelievably light, sweet foods (I even had sugarcane, my Jamaican heart was happy!). The less overt subtleties, such as infectious city spirit of entrepreneurship, magnitude of government-sponsored innovation programmes (+success), and wide-sweeping reach of large Chinese corporations - like Alibaba - on local and national stages, all urged me to re-evaluate successful models of innovation as well as utility of government-populace cooperation. The projects, lectures, tours, trips and discussions fired me up and instilled an incredibly rewarding sense of ‘I can do this too!’ I will be forever grateful for the lessons from this trip.
After the week in Hangzhou, the rest of the month really flew by with interesting events (ambassadorial celebration for 45th anniversary of China-Jamaica relations), extremely moving speakers (such as the formidable Darren Walker of the Ford Foundation) and just really smart guest lecturers (like Joseph Nye, renowned political scientist and father of the term ‘soft power’).
This was definitely a hard-hitting month of ‘out-of-classroom’ learning that I soon won’t forget.
– Stacey-Ann Pearson
Schwarzman Scholars, Class of 2018 - Golden Week holiday
China: Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang (October 2017)
6 weeks in and I’d already forgotten how miserable the train could be. So after weeks of probing self-reflection, Chinese class everyday (and a quiz every morning), friendship building and learning so much about Chinese etiquette/how to survive, it was time to celebrate my first National Day holiday in China, by traveling to the far West!
Our itinerary consisted of one full week of amazing - and unbelievably exhausting - activities by traveling through Lanzhou, Xining, Zhangye, Dunhuang Turpan and Urumqi. Super highlights include being asked to take pictures (and sometimes without permission), Gobi desert, Qinghai Lake, and some other part of the incredibly long Great Wall!
This is definitely one of the most memorable, fun one week trips I’ve ever taken.
– Stacey-Ann Pearson
Schwarzman Scholars, Class of 2018 - it has begun, but first orientation
China: Beijing (September 2017)
Orientation was 2 crazy, jam-packed weeks of team-building, meeting people, coming to terms with being in China, trying to make a home and the list goes on and on. But of course, we also had fun doing it! Our first official event as Schwarzman Scholars was the Tsinghua University convocation ceremony where we got dressed up in our scarves and ties. Our second official event was one week later at Schwarzman’s convocation event with messages and speeches from really cool people (including our founder of course and even Elon Musk!).
In between all that we went through a community building overnight trip, which included a Via Ferrata trail, bonfire dancing and drinking of course, and partnership workshops with the Rhodes Trust!
Yep, it was a heavy but pretty dope start.
-- Stacey-Ann Pearson
Schwarzman Scholars, Class of 2018 - the end is near! (but really it’s the beginning)
Mongolia: UlaanBaatar and China: Beijing (end-August 2017)
Our last country stop before heading into Beijing! We met up with a fellow classmate who graciously and amazingly showed us around UB, the capital city. Nature and art was just so grand and expansive, I’ve never seen anything so airy, peaceful and carefree. Fair warning, Mongolia is just always cold; it was August so we were not prepared for freezing weather, boy was I sorry I didn’t unpack my winter jacket.
We spent one of the nights at Gorkhi-Terelj National Park, near where we rode horses, climbed turtle-like massive rocks and our guide taught us the proper way to drink in Mongolia! And then we stargazed until our bones were frozen.
After Mongolia, it was the last leg of our train excursion - 29 hours to Beijing. Oh we were exhausted but so happy when we finally touched ground in China! That feeling was only eclipsed by a feeling of relief, excitement and nerves as we arrived at our new palatial residence! Such gorgeous architecture (and we were ready for private showers and beds!). But it was good to be home (to a place we had never yet been to) or maybe it was just good to be off the train.
-- Stacey-Ann Pearson
Schwarzman Scholars, Class of 2018 - nature and culture in Siberia
Russian countryside: Irkutsk, Listvyanka, Ulan Ude and Baikal Lake (mid-August 2017)
This countryside and nature focused part of the trip was our much needed reward after the longest leg of our train ride - we stayed on the train for 2.5 days. We lived, slept, drank water, sang, chatted, slept again and drank alcohol on a moving box cart for 2 days. I think at that point some people decided that they were definitely doing the trip in reverse from Beijing, crazy mofos. I do concede though, Lake Baikal (UNESCO World Heritage Site) is one of the most gorgeous natural sites I’ve ever seen. The largest (by volume) and oldest lake in the world, Lake Baikal is every bit as stunning as its wikipedia pictures!
As a special treat, on one of the last days in Russia, we spent the morning in an Old Believers village to enjoy the singing and traditional culture of the Trans-Baikal Semeiskie. It was unanimously agreed that this was the highlight of our Russian adventures! So much welcoming food, nom nom nom.
-- Stacey-Ann Pearson
Schwarzman Scholars, Class of 2018 - the ‘gang of the back’ gets together
Russian cities: St.Petersburg, Moscow, Yekaterinburg (mid-August 2017)
Wow, what a group of amazing people and what a crazy trip! The first part of the trip was spent in major Russian cities, where we marveled at rich and very well preserved culture, enjoyed Russian ballet, climbed mountains and got way too comfy on a train. Seriously though, I highly recommend journeying the Trans-Siberian at least once in your life (but be warned, you may be scarred and will probably never take another train...ever again).
Inadvertently, we made friends with Russian soldiers (who rapped something about gangs and back of the train), made train attendants cry because our luggage really was stress-inducing and fell in love with our very knowledgeable and amazing Russian guide!
What a time with a bunch of smart cuties.
-- Stacey-Ann Pearson
Schwarzman Scholars, Class of 2018 - the power of reflection
Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn (August 2017)
I was about to embark on a year-long Masters programme with 120+ scholars and for some whacky reason 16 of us decided to do a massive pre-trip excursion. And even whackier, 4 of us decided to do a pre-pre-trip by taking a plane to Sweden, ferries through Finland and Estonia and a bus to St. Petersburg! Oh the madness.
For one week, we lugged our year’s worth of bags around, ate our weight in burgers and fries (best burger I’ve ever had in my life, please go to Helsinki for this burger), drank way too much Nordic beer (don’t confuse Scandinavian and Nordic anything or people will get angry), and I learned how I respond to the fragile nature of life (b/c we thought we encountered a potential death threat while we were stuck on the Baltic Sea, but that’s a story for another time).
All in all, this was an amazing and radical way to start off my new life! Despite the awesome-ness of my original crew, we were all ready to meet up with the other 12 travelers to journey to Beijing! Our ending motto was hilariously #moreoptions
-- Stacey-Ann Pearson
America is in its last season and the writers are just throwing in crazy plot twists now like “Kill off Scalia. Contract dispute with Jeb, he’s gone. Hey, what if Donald Trump was president lol”
i cant believe shonda rhimes wrote the story of america
BOOST AF
This woman confronts racism in the funniest way possible.
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I love this soo much
“I’ve had to deal with a lot of labels. Too strong, too sexy, too focused on tennis, mean.” - (X)
AYYYYEEEEEEE
Hey QueerWOC! Reblog this if you will be in the NYC area for New Year’s Eve/New Years!
If you’re going to be in New York City reblog this or inbox me so we can connect for a meetup!
Is this real? Because it would be awesome to have new qwoc friends!
One late night, you are up in your bedroom when you hear your mom calling you downstairs. You are halfway down the staircase when all of a sudden, you see your mom in front of her bedroom door, terrified, she whispers, ‘Don’t go downstairs. I heard her, too.’
Who do you believe?
The one calling me downstairs. They’re lesbians, not ghosts.
Once Upon a Time Meme:
→ [3/7] Relationships: Emma Swan and Regina Mills
Calling all Sween and Evil Regals
Trying to prove a point to a friend like/reblog if you think Lana Parrilla is hot af and/or Swan Queen is a legitimate (and awesome) ship!!!!
I asked a young White woman why she was studying social anthropology. She replied that she was hoping to go to Zimbabwe, and felt that she could help women there by advising them how to organize. The Black women in the audience gasped in astonishment. Here was someone scarcely past girlhood, who had just started university and had never fought a war in her life. She was planning to go to Africa to teach female veterans of a liberation struggle how to organize! This is the kind of arrogant, if not absurd attitude we encounter repeatedly. It makes one think: Better the distant armchair anthropologists than these ‘sisters’.
Nigerian feminist Ifi Amadiume (via newwavefeminism)
