At 23, I had the best rice noodle I've ever had in life… while working. 

We were in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. 

Guilin is where they say "east or west, Guilin is the best," and where any random snap will be postcard quality.

I was lucky enough traveling with my fellow CGTN crew on a tour covering China in real time, from three different routes, namely the northeast, southeast and southwest.

I was with the team touring from Guangxi — southeastern end of the Chinese mainland — to the eastern metropolis Shanghai in 12 days. We've turned a coach bus – kind of like the "megabus" I used to travel in back in the United States – into a mobile studio, with normal seats in the front, and a simply-made studio at the end.

Well, not so simple. Simple compared to a full-set professional television studio, but still consisting of basic components — three HD cameras filming on different directions with lights in the middle one, a portable teleprompter, a sound machine, 4G transmission system, and UPS power supply, among many others.

There were also cameramen filming from the sunroof of the two SUVs, both running either in front of the bus or on the side.

Yet it is not those high-tech products that impress me, but the experience.

Serving as digital editor this time, my main task was to coordinate the two livestreams happening every day for 12 consecutive days.

Sounds like an easy job. But it is not.

Lots of times I will have to deal with the unexpected "emergencies": things like constant signal losses, large crowds in which our cameramen could not really move, traffic jams, guests not showing up, sudden change of weather and others I wouldn't even have dreamed of.

Things happen, and sometimes you will have to go with it.

"Whatever, we'll just do it," was what our reporter-turned anchor Li Jianhua had been saying along the way.

Him and Lindy Mtongana, two of our anchors this time, show me what real journalists look like.

I remembered this one time when we were trying to present the local Mid-Autumn Festival in Gulangyu, the most famous scenic spot of Xiamen, Fujian Province, where we were still busy communicating with three foreign passersby literally 30 seconds before the actual stream. But 30 seconds later, their perfect smile showed up and started the show as if everything's well under control.

Confident, devoted and versatile.

They say "if you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." For our anchor Michelle Van den Bergh, that's totally the case.

We had a rough outline for every livestream: for the first 10 minutes, you were supposed to be in this place and do this and the next 20 minutes, you were expected to talk with that person.

There was certainly no rules for Michelle. She had a lot of spontaneous "thoughts" during the livestream, such as trying out local snacks along the streets, or talking to some random tour guide who happened to smile at her when she walked into one of the pavilions, which ended up getting great feedback.

Working with those people makes me realize that I am still far from being an actual reporter. Hopefully by the time I am 25, my dream can come true.