Hi folks! Welcome to my GeoBlog page 🙂 🙂

Quick facts about myself:
I’m Kasumi, a junior print journalism major/psych & int’l studies minor.
I was born in Japan to Chinese parents and grew up in both China and Japan.
I have been to 10 countries/regions: Japan, China, USA, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Turkey and Egypt.
I speak Japanese, English, Mandarin Chinese and Shanghainese.
I’m a HUUGE fan of raqs sharqi (which is a fancy word for belly dancing) and bhangra music.
I love (window) shopping and museum hopping.

As you can see I’ve been quite a globe-trotting nomad myself so you shouldn’t expect cute-but-naive posts like “oohhhh my word! people in Country X serve and eat a fish WHOLE!!!!!!!!!”
Eating a fish whole (and sometimes live or raw) is a normal part of someone’s life, somewhere on this planet. You just don’t know. Normalcy is such an arbitrary thing once you open your eyes to new cultures.

I will be looking into stuff that’s buried deeper and more interesting, to me personally.
I’m particularly looking forward to discovering how the Londoners/Brits define gender equality, diversity/multiculturalism and globalization.
And also getting a taste of the belly dance/bhangra scene, of course! 

I hope you all can join me in this journey! 😀

P.S. And I wish all of my fellow GeoBloggers, study abroad students and my offline friends & family a happy holiday season! 🙂

Location: Los Angeles, CA