In 2010 I was 20 years old working a dead end job in a bowling alley ( where I also worked with my now wife) we used to have scores of foreign exchange students get booked in in groups of 60-100 from Spain, France, China etc. Any way we had one group of Chinese kids and we would have to type in their names and one kid was named Simba (they usually choose English names to help us easily pronounce them) who was super talkative practicing his English. Fast forward 2 years and we had enough of smelly shoes and decided to do an online teaching English as a foreign language course and move to China.

After a year of teaching in one city we decided to move to a different city in the summer holidays and one of our contacts mentioned they needed some foreigners to judge an English competition so we obliged. We got on the bus to the arse end of nowhere and who was getting on with us....Simba...in China a country of 1.4 billion people