Sammi J. Minkes
Trip to Osaka
During the autumn festival in China, aka Red October, is the perfect time to take a longer vacation once more to Japan. I’ve never...
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A Week In Japan: After Four Years In China
After four and a half years in China, I've taken a trip aborad. I like to pretend that I haven't taken a week off since I visited Tokyo...
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Teaching English in Budapest
I’m about to teach English for the first time in my life. The stage is set. I’ve checked my pens are working and I wore a collared shirt...
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The Year Of The Rat: Spring Festival 2020
January 2020: Being feeling ill since I got here I remember back in early December one of the naughty boys I teach had a surgical mask on...
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The view from the seventeenth floor
November 2019: Renting an affordable flat is a new experience I was picked up from the airport by a new friend from the school I work...
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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
It was a cold and grey afternoon in November 2019 when I left England with a one way ticket to a new life in China. I still don't regret...
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Le Mans Grand Prix
Seb - Scuderia Ferrari Seb thumps his Ferrari V10 through the gears, fourth, fifth, sixth and still his attacker is on him looking for a...
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Living in China - 5 things I miss about England
In November 2019 I finally said, 'fuck it', and moved to China. It had been a long time coming. After years of working dead-end and...
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F1 2020 - Round 2 The Malaysian Grand Prix
29th March 2020 Sepang, Malaysia The Formula 1 circus has arrived in Malaysia at the quarantined and COVID-19 free Sepang Circuit. This...
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The 2020 F1 Australian Grand Prix from Bathurst
15th March 2020, Bathurst, Australia In seventy years of Formula One racing the feeling of foreboding has never been so prevalent as it...
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