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While most of the time you probably see me eating food, I've been receiving a lot of questions lately asking me who exactly I am, how I started traveling, why I love eating so much, and how I earn a living. So in this video I'm going to quickly explain how and where I grew up.
I was born in Phoenix, Arizona, in the USA in 1986. My mother is from Hawaii, and she's Chinese, so I'm half Chinese. Visiting Hawaii, where food is a huge part of the culture, is where I first became so obsessed with all things food. My grandfather was a Chinese chef, so food has been a big part of my family.
My parents are Christian missionaries, so when I was 5 years old, we moved to France for a year. I attended my first year of school in France. We then moved to DR Congo, which was then known as Zaire. We lived in the middle of the jungle and as a kid I would run around exploring and eating interesting and rather bizarre jungle creatures. Due to war in Zaire, we moved to Nairobi, Kenya, where I attended a Christian international school for 8 years until graduating from high school. After high school I went back to Arizona and attended Arizona State University for 4 years, graduating with a degree in global studies.
After graduating, I didn't want to just get a job, so I started traveling again. I traveled in South America and then went to Asia where I finally got a job teaching English for a year. During that year though, I decided not to ever teach again but to do everything I could to make it as a freelancer on the internet and be able to have freedom to travel (and eat). It was in Thailand that I met my girlfriend, who is now my wife, so I am married!
This brings us up to now. For a living I do a combination of selling my own ebooks, freelance writing, making videos, and all sorts of other random projects like SEO and social media marketing.
Thank you very much for watching this life sketch video and if you have any questions for me, be sure to let me know in the comments below. You can also ask me on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/migrationology
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Bangkok Travel Guide: http://migrationology.com/ebook-101-things-to-do-in-bangkok/
Thai Food Guide: http://www.eatingthaifood.com/eating-thai-food-guide/
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While most of the time you probably see me eating food, I've been receiving a lot of questions lately asking me who exactly I am, how I started traveling, why I love eating so much, and how I earn a living. So in this video I'm going to quickly explain how and where I grew up.
I was born in Phoenix, Arizona, in the USA in 1986. My mother is from Hawaii, and she's Chinese, so I'm half Chinese. Visiting Hawaii, where food is a huge part of the culture, is where I first became so obsessed with all things food. My grandfather was a Chinese chef, so food has been a big part of my family.
My parents are Christian missionaries, so when I was 5 years old, we moved to France for a year. I attended my first year of school in France. We then moved to DR Congo, which was then known as Zaire. We lived in the middle of the jungle and as a kid I would run around exploring and eating interesting and rather bizarre jungle creatures. Due to war in Zaire, we moved to Nairobi, Kenya, where I attended a Christian international school for 8 years until graduating from high school. After high school I went back to Arizona and attended Arizona State University for 4 years, graduating with a degree in global studies.
After graduating, I didn't want to just get a job, so I started traveling again. I traveled in South America and then went to Asia where I finally got a job teaching English for a year. During that year though, I decided not to ever teach again but to do everything I could to make it as a freelancer on the internet and be able to have freedom to travel (and eat). It was in Thailand that I met my girlfriend, who is now my wife, so I am married!
This brings us up to now. For a living I do a combination of selling my own ebooks, freelance writing, making videos, and all sorts of other random projects like SEO and social media marketing.
Thank you very much for watching this life sketch video and if you have any questions for me, be sure to let me know in the comments below. You can also ask me on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/migrationology
Follow my food adventures at http://migrationology.com/ & http://www.eatingthaifood.com/
Bangkok Travel Guide: http://migrationology.com/ebook-101-things-to-do-in-bangkok/
Thai Food Guide: http://www.eatingthaifood.com/eating-thai-food-guide/
Finally, subscribe so you don't miss the next tasty adventure http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=migrationology
hi Mark i am from the Philippines. i watch your blog and inspired to cook more Thai dishes. Hope to know about your mom. i watched your blog with your dad
After watching so many of your videos it was really nice to hear a bit more about your back story Mark. I hope we can bring you to Canada one day :).
I’ve been following you for 4 years now to almost of your travel.. and seeing all this old videos of your it’s really inspiring.. i am really big fun of your and to your family, all the best mark! Gian here
I had questions, 9 years later (only recently discovered this channel), and this video still holds up. Gained a lot of respect from watching it.
I'm almost certain you will never see this because I don't know how YouTube works with YouTube and please know that I found you later on and I want to get through all your videos!!!!!!
Im watching in 4/23/23 and I love ur channel I have gone back and watched so many videos! I'm sure you have no idea the people that go back and watch your all videos and new ones alike. I know I'm commenting on an old old old video but you know what I'm loving it so much I have just been binging you nonstop and I love what you're doing! I'm almost certain I'm about to finish washing all the videos that you have made! Just hope you look back to your old videos and see you're still inspiring people and it's amazing and I'm so excited to continue know what your rest of your videos!!!!!!
Lovely to know your background story Mark
Oh hi ying
Hi mark ying and micah . I watch you guys so much I ve leant so much about the places you travel too. You did a video on zimbabwean food but that's not in zim. Please come to Zimbabwe. I assure you you'll be safe
ما شاء الله تبارك الله عليك 👍🥰😘😍❤️💗❤️✋🇸🇦
Love your videos ❤
I live in New Mexico, come find me would love to show you around!!
Love your videos!! I love food too
Pls try to visit also in Iloilo city province of Philippines
Where do you put all that food?