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Let's Get Hammer Drunk, Eh?

Peking People - tnwinn, Aug 27, 2008

Meet Funk. James Funk.

James is of a fast dying breed here in Beijing: he is one of the thousands of foreigners that were shipped over to work on the 2008 Olympics. Funk has been living in the Chaoyang district of Beijing for 5 months, along with some of his other coworkers from an American broadcasting company. He is among various Canadians who were invited to work for the Beijing Olympics and are now looking forward to working for Vancouver 2010.

Working for a Western company and mostly mingling with Western company hasn’t completely prevented him from realizing he’s living in another world. His first “Wow, I live in China” moment occurred when a donkey pulling a buggy ...

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