Home Away From Home

Name: Mitchel Africa Time Spent in China: 9 Years Occupation: Educator Hometown: San Pedro, Philippines How did your journey in China begin? My initial journey to China is in fact a remarkable story. Back in The Philippines, I am a registered nurse and it was actually my mom who was initially supposed to come to

Name: Mino Andriantsimahavandy Country: Madagascar Do you want to hear my love-story with China? Okay! I was 22 years-old when I got a letter from the Embassy of China in Antananarivo. Antananarivo is the capital city of Madagascar, the country where I was born and raised. A country that I’d never left, not even once. This is

Name: Upul Wickramasinghe Country: Sri Lanka Occupation: Journalist How did I begin my journey in China? I can still remember watching a TV program on China and Chinese culture about 20 years ago when I was still very small. In the background, I heard melodious strains of Chinese music and I can still remember how

Name:  Ariana Murray Country of Origin: United States Occupation: Educator Years in China: 1 My journey in China began back in 2018, when I saw a flyer at my university to study abroad for one semester. At that time, I recently won a prize to receive a free passport through a drawing so it just made

Name: Vicente Sivera Catalá Country of Origin: Spain Occupation: Board Game Illustrator and graphic designer Years in China: 8 “Maybe you were a Chinese person in your past life.” Over the 8 years that I have been living in China this is the, somewhat corny, jokingly way some of my Chinese friends replied to my

Name: Katherine or Katya or 凯瑟琳 Country of origin: USA Occupation: Educator Years in China: 11 How did your journey in China begin? That is not as easy a question as it seems. * Was it every time I visited a new big city as a child and declared I’d live there someday?— In hindsight,

Bonjour! Hello everyone, my name is Melody and my Chinese name is 梅洛 (Méiluò the same characters as grape variety Merlot). I’m French and a Hunanese daughter-in-law! I’ve been attracted to China’s history, cuisine and language since I was a child… But what first made me fall in love with China was the giant pandas.

Name：Thara McDonald Country of Origin：New Zealand (half Kiwi, half Thai) Occupation：Educator Years in China：Approximately 2 Years How did your journey in China begin? In 2017 I was living in New Zealand and at that time, applying for jobs in China since I always wanted to experience living here. I got an offer to teach in

Name: Luz Country of Origin: Spain Occupation: Translator, interpreter and CMO Years in China: 6 How did your journey in China begin? I was a Spanish, English and Chinese translation major in my undergrad years. After 4 years of part-time Chinese learning, I could translate written texts, but could barely utter a few Chinese sentences

Name: Andrew Country of Origin: United States of America Occupation: Call Center Supervisor Years in China: 4.5 How did your Journey in China Begin, what is your unique China Story? My first time to visit this side of the world was in May 2015 as a school trip through Taiwan and Shanghai for 2 weeks.