Andis Kaulins is the 2014 Wuxi Expat of the Year

Wuxi Expat Andis Kaulins, from Canada, ended ten years of futility by winning his first Wuxi Expat of the Year Award.

Kennesaw “Hui Shan” Landis, commissioner of the Wuxi Expat Hall of Fame made the announcement of the the award at the Wuxi Expat of the Year Banquet held at the Pizza Hut in the Hui Shan Wanda Plaza. After the announcement, he did not field questions from the media because he wanted to get to the a more lavish banquet being held at the Wuxi Raddison where Double Saint Archduke Sir Harry Moore Emeritus was to be awarded his third consecutive Wuxi Expat Best Legs of the Year Award as well as the inaugural Wuxi Expat Most Sublime Pectorals of the Year Award and the 2014 Mister Wuxi Bum-Bum award(awarded to the Male Wuxi Expat who was judged to have the most shapely buttocks in 2014.)

Kaulins told the Wuxi China Expatdom Blog correspondent, who was also itching to get to the Raddison, that the award had done nothing for his self-esteem. “Only my wife and son are here at the banquet. I understand that seven hundred fifty thousand Wuxi Expats are attending the banquet at the Wuxi Raddison. I also can't take solace from the fact that the 2013 Shanghai Expat of the year, Paul Rudkin, the great male model, philanthropist, and tech innovator received only two votes less than me in the award voting. Residing in Shanghai, Rudkin made about three short visits to Wuxi but was able to wow the members of the Wuxi Expat of the Year Selection Committee over in a way that I never could.”

Kaulins has lived in the Wuxi China Expatdom since 2004, all the while teaching at the same school. He had be enshrined in the Wuxi Expat Hall of Fame in 2011 for his role in the ouster of the previous King of Wuxi, the notorious tyrant the Ayatollah of Mordor. But since then, his star in the Wuxi Expat community has waned.

In a press release, commissioner Landis defended giving the award to Kaulins saying it took some strange kind of courage to live in Wuxi for ten years and teach at the same school. “It is something most people would never do.” said Landis. “It is worthy of some kind of award.”