April Xiong is a film/creative writing student at NYU Abu Dhabi. She can often be seen strolling aimlessly, reading, eating more than she should, dancing bizarrely, watching films, sleeping on planes, writing surreptitiously, taking photographs, playing the piano, avoiding cheese, and performing other mundane but verisimilitudinous activities. She lives perilously far from the edge.
When I am in Abu Dhabi, I miss New York and Chongqing and Buenos Aires and all the other places in the world that mean something to me. And when I am in those other places, I miss Abu Dhabi.