Home Away From Home 2021

It has been 5 months already since the “Home Away from Home” essay contest began! We appreciate all the foreign friends who have participated writing 55 unique stories about their experience as expats in China.  On October 31st, the voting system closed, and after thorough counting of likes, reads and votes, today is the time to announce the 5 winners! […]

The poll of Home Away From Home is open now! 1 vote per person. These votes account towards 50% of the final points. Deadline to vote Sunday October 31st. Good luck! 大家好，《家外之家》网站投票通道现已开放，每人仅限1票投票占比总分 50%，快快让你的朋友为你投票吧！投票截止日期 2021 年 10 月 31 日 Vote here (Password MTS21) （密码：MTS21）:

Name: 陈悟空 Vlad Country: Ukraine Occupation: Entrepreneur & Student Years in China: 4 大家好。All the time when people ask what is my name, I have difficulties with providing an answer because it actually doesn’t exist. Don’t get me wrong, I have a name, but it is not a common English one. That is why, to […]

Name: Bepari Roshan Zameer Originally from: India Occupation: Student of Clinical Medicine Years in China: 5 Life itself drives us where we deserve to be. All you need is to have a plan, commit to your goals, prepare, be consistent and have faith. My story is one example… I went to Germany to pursue my […]

Name: Tamar Kvlividze Country of Origin: Georgia Occupation: Overseas Market Manager I first came to China in 2015, but the journey to China started a long time ago. More than 15 years ago, when I was a little girl, I had a conversation with my dad about my future goals. He suggested that I should […]

Name: Ana Padilla Fornieles Country of Origin: Spain Occupation: translator, freelance writer, secretary Years in China: 6 years but who’s counting! How did your journey in China begin? Once upon a time, there was an 18-year-old girl deciding on her undergrad major. She decided she wanted to graduate in Translation and Interpreting Studies, but what […]

Name: Camila Country of Origin: Ecuador Occupation: Student Years in China: 2 years The experience of studying in China Two and a half years before, I wasn’t expecting to come to China and live all the experiences that I am living now. Exactly two years ago, I was in a 30-hour flight coming to China, […]

Name: Szabolcs Szajp Country of Origin: Hungary Occupation: Director of Hungarian Innovation and Technology Center Years in China: 13 The adventure is still on… Story written by Szabolcs Szajp My China story starts in 2007 in Hungary, where I was teaching international political economy at the Corvinus University of Budapest, and researching public economic policy issues in a think-tank. I was in a relationship for 4 years, I owned […]

Name: Carla Croman Country of Origin: Spain, Barcelona Occupation: Fashion designer  Years in China: 4 years  How did your journey in China begin? My story in China started when I got a job offer for a company in Guangzhou. I never thought of China as a place where I would like to live, I only considered it as a place […]

Name: Hanna Originally from: Seoul, Korea Years in China: 17 Occupation: Opera singer, vocal trainer, music and Korean language teacher How did your China journey begin? My first time in China was 18 years ago. I visited Xiamen as a tourist with my mum, my aunt and her daughters. Not many tourists came here at […]

Name: Raj Years in China: 21 Years Occupation: Interior Designer Country of Origin: Singapore, of 3rd Generation Singaporean Indian How did your journey in China begin? The first time I step foot on Chinese soil was in 1997 when I went to Beijing for a work trip regarding the design of a hotel there. Coming […]