Happy Chinese New Year
Paint the Town Red!
from Beijing

Dear friends and associates........

After accepting an offer to do sustainable development work in line with my passions, I am now working in Beijing until the Olympics. I did not expect to stay here when I came to Chinese capital last fall...but those of you who know me well could see that this was not entirely unexpected either. Just like leaving the Chinese painter to give my bedroom what I wanted to be a temple red coat....


September should find me back at the University of California San Diego finishing my masters degree in international relations.

Here's another view--of the sky ablaze with fireworks!!--from my new Beijing apartment.


Peace to you and yours,

Joshua