Zao, Wo jiao Rob

(Good morning, my name is Rob) but, I'm sure you already knew that seeing as you made your way to this blog...

In Greater Burlington born and raised

On the playground is where I spent most of my days

Chillin out, maxin, relaxing all cool,

And all Huckin' some Frisbee outside of the school....

(Photo by Sarah Kjelleren)

then I never left the area and started my higher education...

I'm in my third year at Champlain College as a Communications and Creative Media major. So in a nutshell I take pictures, make videos and edit media but not as well as the Digital Film majors. I dabble in Mass media, but not as much as Public Relation majors. You know those corny group exercises where you supposed to build communication, group congruency and crap? That is the human communications part. It's a major covering a very broad range for people with many interests, or in my case a major for someone who has no clue.

The only place I've been to outside of the good old U S of A is Canada, which pretty much is the same except they dress funny, a small percentage speaks French and they don't tip (trust me i worked at hotel for 5 years). Montreal, Canada is actually the closet metropolis to Burlington VT. Yup, Boston is about 3 and a half hours away via car and Montreal is only about 1 and a half to 2 hours away.

My main point being that Canada doesn't count as an intercultural experience (in my opinion).I have been given the raddest of the rad opportunities. To travel to China and make a multimedia project about the experience. FUC*ING AWESOME. All I know about China are things like Tienanmen Square, America owing them LOTS of money, Godzilla, Bruce Lee, Kung Fu, and they deliver food to my apartment with one phone call.So basically i have no idea what to expect, hopefully I get to see some of this on the streets of Beijing

Some dude jammin' making skrillaz

I'm especially excited to see some of the major sites like

The Great Wall

Tiananmen Square

Perhaps I can take my own pretty pictures of these globally known historical landmarks.

Xie Xie,

Rob LaClair



UPDATE: After tweeting to promote my Blog an old friend of mine @aznnflight (alan) had this to say:

"@laclairob you can expect stuff like this tinyurl.com/3r7ku4g "