Elizabeth Goddard (高伊丽)

Life tips:

1. If you buy strawberries on the side of a road, be sure to eat them without washing, and to throw the stems out the window on the highway.

2. If you find yourself in teahouse in a rice paddy in LiJiang, Yunnan, China, do not buy the tea.

3. Mansfield Park trumps Pride and Prejudice, because we should all strive to be men and women of character. Read it.

4. When possible, fly Air Emirates. They have starry ceilings, free stickers, and Haagen-Dazs ice cream.

5. Marry a hipster. I'd like to.

6. When in South Africa, leading an "AIDS awareness small group" means teaching sex-ed. Steer clear.

7. If you find yourself using Korean dramas as a coping mechanism, seek help.

8. Before you ask a Third Culture Kid where he or she is from, consider what it would feel like to be asked why cucumbers have wings.

9. Don't skip band camp. If you do you'll march with the clarinets.

10. Whatever your feelings about God are, at least do the decent thing and tell him about it.