The travels of Justin

Last month I was answering questions about TRU and Canadian universities to Chinese parents. I’m sure China isn’t the only country that seems obsessed with ranking, but it’s a country where I have experience to talk about.
Constantly my friends and people I meet are asking me about what is the “best” university in Canada. They [...]

I ate delicious french bread with cheese and garlic from a local bakery near where I’m staying. The croissants actually taste like croissants, unlike Tianjin where bakeries use oil instead of butter to make their product look like the foreign and exotic croissant, but the flavour isn’t the same.
On a street corner — far from [...]

Having traveled to the Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia in 2004 I can attest to their awesome beauty and have the pictures to prove it. If expensive airplanes and leftover landmines are a turn-off, why not build your own paper Angkor Wat at home:

Despite my best efforts, it seems almost impossible to find out what my options are for housing on campus while most people are on vacation during the summer holiday. Since progress is at a standstill, I’m going to cool off and enjoy some dark German beer in Shanghai with my Swabian friend. In the meantime, [...]