The travels of Justin

My first photos of Nanchang are available for public consumption. Enjoy!

湖滨公园 (Park and lake near the north campus)

“That’s China of the 1980’s,” says the man sharing my train compartment as the train slows to enter Nanchang City (南昌市). Easily spotting the red maple leaf I met Mr. Yan, a Nanchang student who spent 3-months in TRU as an enchange student and was kind enough to be my first contact at 6 AM [...]

I’m helping out at an education expo in Beijing this weekend. I couldn’t believe that I was greeted outside the expo centre by scalpers selling tickets. “我有” (I have), is my reply, but one guy keep trying assuming that I am brushing him off instinctually. Once he realizes that I’m actually speaking Chinese with a [...]

I left Dalian a few days ago to meet a train traveling from Beijing to Nanchang. I learned that — for reasons beyond my understanding — it is impossible to buy a train ticket for a Beijing train from anywhere outside the capital. A friend who happend to be visiting Beijing purchased the ticket for [...]

Dan Harris at the China Law Blog discovered that Newsweek is calling Nanchang one of the worlds “ten most dynamic cities.”
Aside from the formalities of getting settled in, I haven’t made any specific plans for exploring the area. If any of you, my readers, have questions about Nanchang, I invite you to put them in [...]

I’ve just wrapped up a week in Dalian (大连市) and I can tell you it’s been nice. Staying with friends, I’ve had access to the internet long enough to upload a lot of photos that have been waiting for such an occassion. Here’s a view from the 29th floor apartment I’ve been staying:

Dalian skyline
It’s reputation [...]

Happy Canada Day!
I just finished school yesterday. It’s so amazing… my first school year in China. Not my last. Some great times and some very difficult challenges.
The last month of school has been very intense which is why I haven’t been writting. Tomorrow, I’ll be doing a voice-over for an advertisement at the Tianjin TV [...]