CHINA

Country Overview:

“Love the food, hate the government”

I arrived in China in May 2013 and left August 2020. I taught English for awhile, did my master’s of politics & foreign policy at Tsinghua University, worked for a year at China Today, and then two years at Xinhua News Agency. I spent most of my time in Beijing, but also traveled to Shanghai, Wuhan, Inner Mongolia, Shenzhen, Panjin, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Qingdao, Xi’an, Sanya, Macau, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

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Commercial

Filmed an advertisement for an English school awhile back. Still in post-production, but here are some pictures from set

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Still Confused

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Boxfish

Well hello there

This popped up on my buddies tablet. I'm sure one can imagine the onslaught of messages I received.

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Boxfish, a startup company that I'm doing promotional videos for

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Translation at its finest

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Buddy sent me this from the school he teaches at. Keep up the good work man.

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Reminds me of how Bush would say it

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Who keeps making shirts with bad Engrish?

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I tried it, and it’s true, coconut smell, no coconut flavor. Weird

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Happy belated Easter! And yes, I named one of my kids ‘Wall-E’ spelled with a ’-’

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5 year olds doing push-ups is hilarious

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Birthdays are the best

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Cake in the face, classic

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Played Jeopardy in class and used real money in honor of the Chinese New Year

I’ve never seen kids be so excited about winning the equivalent of .04 cents. I’ve also noticed several firework stands being constructed around where I live and keep getting more and more excited in anticipation of their grand opening.