British young man's vendor life in Beijing (2)

（People's Daily Online）  14:05, December 11, 2012

Then he enrolled in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London as a Chinese language major. "I felt I should have learned Chinese sooner," said Jamie, who only managed to learn some Cantonese but could not speak a word of Putonghua (Chinese Mandarin) when he left Hong Kong for University. Jamie came to Beijing shortly after graduation in 2011 to pursue his goals: to improve his Chinese and to become a chef in China.

To him, confinement in an office building in Britain is not the way life should be. "You have to go somewhere where you are different, where you can build success," he said.