by Stowaway Magazine | Sep 1, 2014 | Culture, Fall 2014, Life
Long ago in ancient China, the sky held ten suns, which shone down all together and scorched the earth. A valiant but tyrannical man named Hou Yi shot nine of the ten suns out of the sky, saving the land from the heat and receiving a potion of immortality as a reward....
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 1, 2014 | Field Notes, Service, Spring 2014
“But young lady, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it? You cannot possibly make a difference.” The young woman listened, paused and then bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea, saying, “It made a...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 16, 2014 | Culture, Eats, Winter 2014
Rich, savory smells of slow-cooking meats waft to meet your nose at the restaurant’s door. The smell seems as foreign as the waving golden cat that keeps guard from atop the front counter. Rows of tanks filled with live fish and crawling lobsters decorate the...
by Stowaway Magazine | Sep 1, 2013 | Culture, Fall 2013, Life
There’s not a drop in the sky, but one in ten people on the streets of Zhongshan, China, are carrying an umbrella. No, they’re not over prepared; they’re protecting the porcelain skin they’ve been trying to keep up all winter. The word umbrella is taken from the Latin...
by Stowaway Magazine | Sep 1, 2013 | Away For A While, Fall 2013, Getaways
Lindsi Milligan of Sandy, Utah, says her hair grows fast. Though she has a pixie cut now, she claims that in a year and a half or so, it could be halfway down her back. But when Milligan traveled to China to teach English with the International Language Programs for...
