I'm an American in Zhumadian, China.

I like languages. I can speak English, French, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese to varying degrees. I can also read many European languages, enough understand the basics of meaning. My next languages are Uyghur, Russian, and Arabic.

I like history, especially the history of the 20th century.

I like ideas, culture, that sort of thing. It's what makes us fully human.

I appreciate the poetry of Pablo Neruda and Langston Hughes. These are some of my favorite poems:

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“There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.” -Robert Louis Stevenson