cerebrate good times as a title was justified by its first post, but briefly, it’s a travelblogue and experimental prose testing ground maintained and abused by myself, Andrew Pouw, as I sallyforth on my year-long adventure in Shenzhen, China as an English teacher. With two rather useless bachelor degrees in biology and comparative literature, teaching English is perhaps the only job I am qualified for.
In defiance of my (current!) lack of marketable skills, I do have many not-so-useful ones and diverse interests. The various subjects are categorized in the blog tags visible on the main posting page, but again briefly they include music (listening and performing), film editing, gaming, writing, literary theory, cultural studies, molecular biology, odd hats, and candy. And non sequiturs.
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- the author in his self-reflexive irony.
As some more background information, I was raised in the small, environmentally friendly town of Olympia, WA – a good place for community music projects and hippie co-ops. College transplanted me into downtown Los Angeles at the University of Southern California (blog on THAT experience available here). Going to one of the craziest cities in China seemed an appropriate next step.
While I’m abroad I hope to spend some time working on pieces of fiction which, in an ideal world, would supply enough income for me to stay alive when I return to Los Angeles to begin medical school and a decade of starvation.
