"I'm out here a thousand miles from my home
Walking a road other men have gone down
I'm seeing a new world of people and things
Hear paupers and peasants and princes and kings."

I moved here from China a few years ago. I'm a teacher by trade, but I also spend a lot of time playing folk music. I started performing in the subway a year ago, my repertoire includes Americana traditional standards, old cowboy songs. Busking for me is a way of honoring the great folk tradition as preserved by musical giants like Guthrie and Lomax. When my music brings similes to weary commuters, one drop of a quarter feels like a million bucks to me.

I recently translated a Condé Nast Traveler's guidebook. Now the publisher is talking about re-introducing my favorite journalist Theodore White to Chinese readers. It would be a very fun project, we will see how it goes.

In the meantime, I enjoy travelling, meeting people, learning new things.

I would like to say I am a good teacher, a kind person.
I am a good listener and willing to take different point of views.
I am also good at seeing the humor in the daily grind.

that my appearance shares quite a resemblance with most of people in this world?

Movies:
American Beauty, Juno, Dancer in the Dark, Big Fish, O Brother Where Art Thou? Last Train Home

Music:
Woody Guthrie, Alan Lomax, Robert Johnson, Gershwin, Sondheim, Kid Koala, Aphex Twins, Hank Williams, Dylan, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Cui Jian, Django Reinhardt, Munir Bashir, Gil Scott-Heron, Harry Belafonte, Josh White
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mchkF4dz0g

Shows: TED Talk, Louie, the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, George Carlin specials, PBS Frontline, This is American Life, All Songs Considered, Jazz88

Authors: Robert Frost, Whitman, Alexandra David-Néel, Ha Jin,Thich Nhat Hanh, Howard Zinn, Chomsky, Alan Lomax, Peter Hussler, Theodore White.. as you can see mostly non-fiction stuff about history, politics.

Food: Not a picky eater, always willing try new things. I also enjoy cooking.

food to eat
water to drink
pretty things to look at
pleasant sound to hear
people to love
good surprises

Things I'd like to do next: learning the harmonic minor scale.. getting my driver's license...I also think about my family, friends, my students, my music.

at a concert or hanging with friends and sometimes just hanging out by myself.

I did cut the cheery tree with my hatchet.

if you'd like to know me!