US exchange student dances his way across China
We've all seen that Visa commercial of American video game designer Matt Harding doing his awesome jig all over the world.
Here comes another, this time from Jake Gaba, an American language student from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire who spent three months on an exchange programme in Beijing, China.
He spent 30 hours a week studying Mandarin, although outside of that, he found time to travel and film himself dancing in Beijing, Xi'an, Tibet, Yangshuo, Zhangjiajie, Shanghai, Feng Huang and Hong Kong.
"I knew I wanted to capture my experiences in a very special way, and I knew that just taking photos of my travels wasn't enough. I had to dance," he wrote in the description of his video uploaded to YouTube, which has chalked up 42,500 views (and over 300,000 on a Youku version) since he put it up on 6 January.
Donning a striking pair of rainbow-coloured board shorts, he played Bruno Mars's "Treasure" and boogied like there was no tomorrow.
Gaba, who co-runs a video production company called Symbiotic Studios, spent 15 hours editing the video, which he hopes will make it to Ellen Degeneres's famous TV show, and also perhaps be tweeted by Bruno Mars himself.
"I really want to dance with Ellen. That's my dream," he said in his school's online news site. "And I want Bruno Mars to tweet it. We'll see what happens."
Whether or not that happens, we think it's still a pretty incredible way to document your travel adventures.
Any takers?
