Love in Beijing

The paths people walk sometimes shock me. I met an extremely attractive white dude en route to Beijing who spoke impeccable Chinese (not that I could tell impeccable from atrocious). He just finished recording a 100 episode Chinese soap opera series, in which he plays a lead role. His path started when he served a Chinese speaking Mormon mission. Who would have thought he would end up where he is? Benji Battelle (if you are looking for some eye candy on facebook)

Then, take the dude above who is the most muscular man I've seen in Taiwan. He developed his guns by touring with the circus for a number of years. His specialty--spinning tops, which he now does in street performances around the country. This one he is getting ready to spin weighs at least 200 pounds (I couldn't even budge it off the ground). He let us try our hand at spinning the smaller tops. This was part of a snow-flower festival. The mountains literally looked covered in snow from all the white flowers.