Posted on February 5, 2010 by The Nomadic Reporter
When I arrived back in North America, I was absolutely in love with all those things I missed while being abroad. After enough time in Africa and Asia, the thought of being able to bathe in bath water that you could, yes, technically drink, excited me to no end. Cheese displays in the grocery store [...]
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Posted on December 16, 2009 by The Nomadic Reporter
Just a few China myths for you, courtesy of the New Yorker…
My favorite?
“The Internet might be censored but it can never be rolled back in China”
and
“China is a land of no siblings.” (People always ask about that one).
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2009/12/top-ten-china-myths-of-2009.html#ixzz0ZrkhjSiB
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Posted on October 26, 2009 by The Nomadic Reporter
Pollution was something that I thought about far more in China than I do here in Canada. A lot of that was on a simple day-to-day level – when I hacked up suspicious black things and suffered from constant eye infections. Or checking the pollution ratings each day and seeing the reports of a “blue [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2009 by The Nomadic Reporter
In many ways, the media here is still very young and developing in China, as compared to North America. Some of my work here involves editing stories written by Chinese reporters who, I must say, have slightly different “rules” to play by than the ones that were drilled into my head at journalism school.
First off [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2009 by The Nomadic Reporter
As I hopped on my bike yesterday to head towards home, I couldn’t understand why everyone was riding in such an insane fashion.
Now, riding a bike here in the beginning was a harrowing, white knuckle experience. I’m trying to come up with an analogy, so let’s say, picture the entire city of Montreal on a [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2009 by The Nomadic Reporter
The other day I arrived home and found this note on my front door. In fact, I found three identical notes on all the doors surrounding my apartment. My roomate and I are the only foreigners in the building, so it apparently seems there is a need for our services.
We laughed pretty hard.
They big questions [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2009 by The Nomadic Reporter
As much as I enjoy the food here there are things I miss.
Cheese.
Oh cheeeeese. I love you so. My cheese experience in Uganda was rather lacking. My cheese experience in China has been slightly better. There is a large selection here of cheese if you go to the fancy import stores, but you have to [...]
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Posted on June 30, 2009 by The Nomadic Reporter
Every day when I come home, there is a small group of elderly women and men waiting for me outside perched on a strange assortment of chairs that have been rescued from the trash bin. In actuality, they’re not waiting for me, per se, but they are hanging out, drinking tea and occasionally playing checkers [...]
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Posted on May 14, 2009 by The Nomadic Reporter
I’m finally at this brilliant point where I’m starting to understand what people say to me. It’s a fabulous feeling, even if I can’t say much back at the moment besides a whole host of random words and phrases (such as “sir, can I have 10 dumplings?” which is very useful I’ll have you [...]
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Posted on April 20, 2009 by The Nomadic Reporter
This photo makes me want to cry.
One of the things I most looked forward to, when coming here, was the food. HOT DAMN there is some amazing food here. Honestly, I would say my failure rate of food (which, I think in North America is at least 50 per cent) is about 10 per cent [...]
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