Brit from Beijing

karma2000 · 2006-03-31T16:45:26+02:00

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karma2000 New member

Member since 31 March 2006

karma2000New member31 March 2006 14:45:26

Greetings from Beijing. I've been urged to introduce myself and my blog here so here goes:

I'm a 26 year old Brit living in Beijing at the moment. I've been here for five months and I'm a physics researcher (a string theorist indeed) and I'll be out here for two years on my first postdoc.

I love travelling and have been lucky enough to do so reasonably extensively over the years. I'm always on the lookout for the weird and wonderful whether it's meeting interesting people to going to unusual cultural events.

I started the blog www.jonstraveladventures.blogspot.com (I hope that's not bad etiquette to advertise straight off!) to keep friends and family up to date and have attracted a few randoms who come and see the strange goings on. I write about everything that takes my fancy from daily life in Beijing, the food, the people, the sights and sounds to science, literature, music and whatever else I feel urged to put down on the blog.

I hope that some people find the mix an interesting one and hope also that everyone can find a little something that catches their fancy, be it descriptions of eating sea cucumber to reviews of Steinbeck and Moodyson to rants on the latest results in particle physics.

Come and enjoy, comment etc. to your heart's content.

Are there many other Beijing expats on this forum?

All the best,

Jon

Julien Founder

Member since 11 March 2005

17 years of happy life abroad

JulienFounder01 April 2006 09:30:45

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Welcome on board Jon

love travelling and have been lucky enough to do so reasonably extensively over the years.

How many countries have you visited? Which one is your favourite?

You can advertise your blog as long as it doesn't try to sell something

Why did you move to Beijing actually? For your researches?

Take care,

Julien

karma2000 New member

Member since 31 March 2006

karma2000New member01 April 2006 14:30:49

I guess I'm up to about 20 something countries so far but have only stayed for longer than a couple of weeks in Belgium, The States, Australia, New Zealand, China, and the UK. One of my favourites is certainly Japan where I went for the first time a month ago. I'd love to live in Tokyo for a couple of years, seems like such a wonderful place to live in so many ways.
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Definitely not selling anything on the blog. It's just for fun.
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I'm out in Beijing because of my work. The area that I work in is extremely competitive so I knew that I would have to go far afield to get a position I wanted. Beijing chose me and I thought that at 26, now was the time to experience something completely new and take a couple of years to see what China had to offer. So far I'm not disappointed at all. There are the usual frustrations but generally life out here for an academic is pretty good. Beijing is changing so fast (perphaps too fast for its own good in some ways) but it's a vibrant exciting place to be in the run up to the Olympics in which everything is being cleaned, built, scrubbed, redesigned and engineered so that everywhere you turn a new buliding has popped up over night. I highly recommend a visit out here to anyone who can make it. Send me a message if you want any advice.

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