The travels of Justin

This is Part 3, in an ongoing series Part 2: Pangolin Part 1: Danger on Campus ========= Looks like serious digging going on at the school. Students are still sticking together for safety. Not sure exactly what’s going on though. Click to enlarge

I’m often asked what kind of things are different between Canada and China to which my first response is always the same: the driving. It’s not so much of a critisim as it is simply is a very clear difference between two countries. My rule of thumb for safe travelling to any country you are [...]

[Part 1 is here: Danger on Campus] Today was pretty uneventful, but that’s only if you measure it by Chinese standards. This morning I mingled in the morning crowd for safety as I went to a print shop to print some homework out to hand-in. I was startled by a large group of students with [...]

In a strange twist of events today, one of my friends in the student union took special care to warn me and Ryan to be careful when walking around campus for the next week or so. They say we shouldn’t be alarmed and that if we walk in the centre of the roads, and only [...]

On Thursday, Ryan and I went to the post office to see if any of our packages had arrived; both of us have been waiting for longer than we can remember for boxes from our families. China Post was very clear that unless we have a piece of paper with some kind of tracking/inventory number [...]

What a great week. We get back from Shanghai after an absolutely fantastic trip and we find the local grocery store has a sale on a camping BBQ with coal — RMB$50 (CAD$7). I don’t remember the last time I made my own burger patties, but I swear they were the best burgers I’ve eaten [...]