The Lost Laowai
Ryan
Ryan came to China in the wee morning of 2005 as a way to get to Australia. He assumes there's still a visa waiting for him at the Sydney airport. Lost Laowai and The Hao Hao Report are his brain children. He apologizes if they've caused you any harm.
Rick
The Newfie-in-the-know, the Pandasteak himself... From the rocky cold shores of Eastern Canada to the rocky cold shores of Dalian - Rick brings some small-town wit and insight to the Lost Laowai blog. He can now be found in Japan where he begins every sentence with "When I was in China..."
Steven
Steven has recently embraced the cathartic nature of blogging and twittering in place of talking to himself on public transport, religion, and daydreaming. Who said technology was unhealthy?
Tam
Tam, despite an aversion to big cities, pollution and large numbers of people, is living and teaching in Beijing...happily.
Gabriel
Mountains of memories and no stories to tell.
Matt
Matt is a native Californian who first came to China in 2004 with the intention for staying a year, getting a bit of teaching experience, and then going home. He still remains, now living in the Spring City of Kunming, Yunnan Province where he struggles to learn Chinese among other pursuits.
Ada
Ada mysteriously appeared in Shanghai after planning a move to Beijing. She plans to stay as long as it takes to learn to understand what the editorials in the official newspapers actually means.
Charlie
An ESL teacher in Harbin, China's "ice city", Charlie has chosen to blog because it keeps his hands close to the warm, warm computer during the freezing nights. He also makes rap music, the intelligent kind, if you're into that sort of thing. His other blog is currently banned in China.
Quincy
Quincy went into investment banking after college but soon quit and moved to China. He hasn't regretted the decision for a minute and, given the current state of the industry, is feeling pretty smart right about now.
Jalal
Jalal moved from the UK to China's Henan Province in 2005, determined not to return until he had made his mother proud. To date he has gambled and lost at the Mah Jong tables of Hunan, washed down sheeps eye kebabs with fiery baijiu, and wrastled the young men of Henan until he could wrastle no more.
Glen
In August 2008, Glen fell asleep in Toronto, and woke up in Suzhou. Since then he has been working at an international school, and is frequently described as a "real teacher", but is unsure as to what that exactly means.
Sarah
Sarah moved to Beijing in September of 2008 to avoid having to find a real occupation. She currently freelances and studies Mandarin in Beijing. She expends a lot of energy pretending she knows what is going on, but is generally just as lost as any other laowai.
Ericka
Ericka woke up in a Xi'an hotel room one day dazed and confused. After a series of inexplicable events, she found herself speaking in strange tongues and married to one of the locals. Currently, she spends her time in Qingdao translating or teaching and trying to avoid assimilation into the Chinese masses.
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