For over a year, I have stayed in 8 cities across 7 countries during my travels, mostly in AirBnb homestays, and also in two co-living communities. I have some personal insights on long-term living environments suitable for remote work (over a month). Gap Year Timeline🌆In terms of city climate, Yunnan Dali, Thailand Chiang Mai, Malaysia Penang, and Indonesia Bali are

On July 1, 2023, I left China for the first time and began a six-month journey through Southeast Asia. One of my goals was to strengthen my ability to use English. After that trip, I went to Mexico and learned Spanish from scratch for four months. Drawing on my experience with English, I experimented with and reflected on language-learning methods again in another language. IELTS without preparationHere is a summary of what I learned about studying English.

In June 2023, I left my job as a programmer at a foreign company in Shenzhen. On July 1, I departed from Hong Kong Airport and began my gap-year trip. It had two parts: six months traveling through five Southeast Asian countries, then two months back in China around the Spring Festival, followed by four months studying Spanish in Mexico. This article looks back on that gap year. The original article was first published on the WeChat public account HaroldBlog.

Introduction: At the end of February 2024, I flew from Chengdu to Mexico via San Francisco ✈️. I had originally planned to spend six months traveling south 🗺️, from Mexico through Guatemala and Peru to Argentina. But after staying in Mexico City for a while, I fell in love with this sunny, tree-lined, warm, and friendly city for reasons I cannot quite explain. In the end, my travel plan became a four-month Spanish-learning plan 🗒️.

At the end of February 2024, I flew from Chengdu to Mexico via San Francisco ✈️. I had originally planned to spend six months traveling south 🗺️, from Mexico through Guatemala and Peru to Argentina. But after staying in Mexico City for a while, I fell in love with this sunny, tree-lined, warm, and friendly city for reasons I cannot quite explain. In the end, my travel plan became a four-month Spanish-learning plan 🗒️.