by Amy Eisenstein | Aug 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
I returned from Asia about a week ago, and have had some time to reflect on my experiences in Singapore. It is a place and a time I will miss, and although I am incredibly grateful and lucky to have received funding allowing me to complete this project, I wish I could...
by Amy Eisenstein | Aug 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
I have come to realize that it’s quite odd to be living in a place for three and half weeks, both trying to accomplish a task and be tourist. I’m not here long enough to really know where I’m going; since moving to the YMCA, I still have to use my...
by Amy Eisenstein | Jul 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
Not to over-post, but I came across something really fun in a moment that I wasn’t even intending to do research! I visited a couple of different museums today, and one of them is called the Peranakan Museum. Peranakan means “mixed race,” in Malay,...
by Amy Eisenstein | Jul 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
This week, I got dinner with a friend of the professor advising my project, and I felt a solidarity in my research experience. She too had spent hours in the NUS library, the National Library and the National Archives conducting research on a BA thesis related to the...
by Amy Eisenstein | Jul 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
Yes, I’ve run out of clever titles. Regardless, I wanted to share some updates from my first week of research in Singapore! First, research related updates: I’ve been in the library about 6-8 hours a day Monday-Saturday, mostly because I hadn’t...
