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.
Happy 2020!
Off to Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar in 2 weeks. Always nice to start off the new year with a vacation.
2020 Resolutions
Here are my resolutions, goals, objectives… whatever… for 2020:
Leave China // Life
Get a job in Europe // Life
1 picture every day // Life
Travel to 3 new countries // Life (Laos - Myanmar)
Read 20 books (15 fiction + 5 non-fiction) // Mind
Write 1 unique sentence per day // Mind
Finalize story and finish outline for new novel idea // Mind
Touch my toes sitting down // Body
Squat bodyweight 10 times // Body
Collect China Social Security // $$$
Contribute $6,000 to Roth IRA // $$$ - DONE
Happy New Year!
It’s Valentine’s Day and the first day of Spring Festival in China. As such, no weekly write-up as I finally have time to catch up on some things. Clothes shopping, cleaning windows, sorting out stuff I don’t need - all the fun stuff that one does on holiday.
Korean New year
One of the first countries to celebrate 2017 and my roommate and his Korean girlfriend couldn't get enough of the annual Korean New year award show
