We were paid $500 US dollars oer month as a Foreign Expert... (half in US dollars the rest in yuan) dosen't sound like much... but when you know that a meal for ten people with a dozen Beijing Beers cost less that $10 US and we had free accomodations... I was able to save about $200 US every month...
This is a one yuan note of the time (1995).
Saturday, November 06, 2004
My Beijing Residency Permit
Everyone who lives in China needed to have an official permit from the government to be able to live where they lived... this is the inside of my permit to live in Beijing.
The inside of my China Daily Press-Pass
I spend almost a year working at China Daily in Beijing as a "Foreign Expert" brought in by the Foreign Expert's Department of the government of the P.R.C. It was a great way to learn about China and the way of life there in 1995... and get paid for it too!
My first test of Audioblogging
I have downloaded it to my Mac and played it there... The audio quality seems to be quite acceptable and would certainly work as a way of doing news reports for a radio station... and since it is free... would certainly be of interest to community radio stations... Why not try it yourself to check the quality? George
Friday, November 05, 2004
Myself in Tianjin
... video taping a beautiful bronze pot... I'm in the yellow jacket... with our minder looking over my shoulder in the background.
Three generations..
... show off their "amautie".. the Inuit woman's traditional costume at the Canada Day "tradional clothing" competition.
The graveyard in Arviat, Nunavut...
.... is a difficult place to lay the community's souls to rest... the permafrost makes digging the graves quite difficult.
A ship's visit is an important moment in all Nunavut communities...
All heavy cargo gets delivered to town via ship as Arviat has no road or rail connection to the outside world... just air and water connections... as with all of Nunavut's communities.
A steel hull
.. said to be the remnants of boat that brought some southern settlers to Arviat, Nunavut.
A ptarmigan...
in in its fall, 'tween season, feather display.. photographed on the "road to nowhere" just outside of Arviat, Nunavut,
The grind...
... of making wheat into flour.. is a local task in Orissa.. not a thing done by some far-away corporation.
Granny & the grand-kids
.... waiting for a polio innoculation.. as part of India's effort to irradicate the disease.
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