Jia Huang

Jia Huang is a contestant from Survivor: Burkina Faso.

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Hobbies: Sculpting, obviously, but I do enjoy plenty of other forms of art. Music, theatre, musical theatre, films, painting, the whole lot. I just prefer to see and hear them rather than do them. I’ve tried painting, but I mixed the water cups too often. Paint does not taste as good as it looks.

Pet Peeves: People who are being loud for the purpose of being loud. It’s just annoying and it makes me think they just want attention.

Three Words To Describe You: Meticulous, fine, obsessive.

Personal Claim To Fame: Getting a work of mine admitted into one of the top art galleries on the West Coast. It hasn’t been easy to get to the level of skill I’m currently at, and there were few rewards along the way, now it feels like everything is just beginning to pay off.

Your Inspiration In Life: I have wanted to be a sculptor ever since my parents took me to see the Terracotta Army on our family trip to China. Something about the scale of it all just, I don’t know, mesmerized me. It’s indescribable the effects that sight had on me.

Contestant You Are Most Like: I think Tai Trang from Survivor: Kaoh Rong is somebody who shares my outlook and life, and he’s also lived in East Asia for a fairly large part of his life, which I have as well.

Reason For Being On Survivor: I’m an artist and I’m alive. Do you think I’m rich? I am piss poor, and yeah it’s starting to get better but I’m not a millionaire. The experience is something I will never get to relive, and that’s something, but I would never spend 39 days on the island for nothing.

Why You’ll Win: I am the type of person who is very detailed. I am a bit of perfectionist and I think that’s why I’ll win. My plans and bonds won’t be sloppy or half-baked like the other castaways. All people need to do is just think things through and everything would go so much better.