The travels of Justin

Upon returning to school, I started a new class: Managerial Economics. My teacher has come from TRU in Canada to teach my class in China. The thing I enjoy best is not that the teacher is a native English speaker. Everyone assumes that language is the biggest thing, but I am enjoying a little bit [...]

I’m back from Korea and really enjoyed my short visit there. The most surprising thing for me was that Seoul reminded me of my home in Canada. I visited two (of three) Certainly with differences, but I liked it a lot. School in Tianjin has resumed, but with a twist now. My program is a [...]

Tianjin is now a long swim away. The ferry to Incheon, Korea was great. The seas were calm and the economy class beds comfortable. In Tianjin, the pollution combined with clouds (that may be related to the sandstorms) made visiblity very limited, but the size of the port is really amazing to see. It seemed [...]

The first 7-days of May is a major labour holiday in China. Of the 3 courses I’m taking this semester, the first has just finished and the next will begin after the holiday. In a few hours I depart from Tianjin to my next destination: Seoul, South Korea. The ferry takes more than 24-hours from [...]

Last night I got to see a small punk concert in Beijing. I’m not a big punk fan, but it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the bands and the atmosphere. Leaving the club I experienced my first Beijing sandstorm. Nothing exciting really. It was just strong winds with sand blowing in your [...]

Behind the Foreign Students Dormitory is a 400-metre track/soccer pitch that occasionally receives the pomp and pageantry of very nationalistic-sounding music, a lot of flag waving, and various announcements echoing through the loudspeakers. Previous times I’ve looked out the back window to see what is happening and it always seemed to be a presentation, the [...]