Love to Share I would love to give everyone the opportunity to share their love for China. If you got a great story, video or poem about your experiences and you would love to share this, do not hesitate and send it to: lovetoshare@yourmarkinchina.com. If you decide to send me something, you can be sure that you will get a response. Jeffrey Baker wrote 'The spirit of Shaolin'. It is a great story about his experiences while training in Qufu's Shaolin academy. His master, Wei Shifu, is a 34th generation Shaolin Disciple and general master of the Shaolin Warrior Monks. During his stay Jeffrey learned a lot about life, himself and the way of Shaolin. He stayed at the school for a total period of 3 months. This story is really something that will inspire you. To read the story Jeffrey Baker wrote, click here. Ioannis Vrettos, also known as Yianni is the first one that used the 'Love to Share' project through this website. He studied for two months at the Shaolin academy in Qufu and traveled around Asia for a while. During his stay at the academy we became friends and started to learn from each other. A great guy with a good sense of humor and a taste for life. To watch the video Yianni created, click here. Winning my first contest Vyara posted something about a photo contest on my facebook wall and thanks to her I found Jeff’s website. Jeff is webhost of “My New Chinese Love” which provides information, recommendations and advice to facilitate joyful interracial relationships with people from China. The theme of the photo contest was ‘showing what you love about China’ and the winner would get a Valentine’s bouquet for the loved one or to keep for him/herself. So I decided to participate with a picture I took from the top of Mount Tai, click here to see my entry. I won the contest! Vyara has been helping Jeff for almost 2 years, due to her passion for the website's aims, and love of Chinese culture and mixed relationships. Upon hearing of the news that I won the competition, Vyara quickly offered to take some photos and footage to that we make this day extra special and for people to see on the website. If you would like to see the video in a bigger frame, click here.