I have now been in Chengdu for 5 days. Too long but what to do when you have a booked flight.. my planing have been little screwed dued that i didnt stay so long in songpan.
But it have been nice, i have spent some days with just relaxing. Visiting the giant buddha and giant panda.
Also meet some swedes, a couple that where really nice. Had a nostalgic trip to IKEA, nice!
Songpan And Chengdu
lördag 30 januari 2010
onsdag 27 januari 2010
After a long (15h) journy i arrived to Xining. Xining is a typical chinese city, BUT with alot of tibetans and muslims. It actual kind of cool. I just spend a day there leaving in the afternoon to go to Guoluo, wich is a tibetan city.
Xining and Road from Dunhuang
Arriving in Guoluo and didnt know when the next buss to Jiuzhaigou, i jump on a bus taking me to ahba. There it supposly should depart a bus, it didnt....
Ahba and Guoluo
So i had to go to other city, Hongyuan.. All small citys with mostly tibetans. nice to travel around and really nice people.
Ahba to Hongyuan to Jiuzhaixie
Arriving and just waiting.. no bus... mayby to other place there it can be one.. no bus arriving.. and then suddently i bus to Jiuzhaigou :)
Jiuzhaigou
But well in Jiuzhaigou i had some really nice photos! Not photoshoped, i promise!
Xining and Road from Dunhuang
Arriving in Guoluo and didnt know when the next buss to Jiuzhaigou, i jump on a bus taking me to ahba. There it supposly should depart a bus, it didnt....
Ahba and Guoluo
So i had to go to other city, Hongyuan.. All small citys with mostly tibetans. nice to travel around and really nice people.
Ahba to Hongyuan to Jiuzhaixie
Arriving and just waiting.. no bus... mayby to other place there it can be one.. no bus arriving.. and then suddently i bus to Jiuzhaigou :)
Jiuzhaigou
But well in Jiuzhaigou i had some really nice photos! Not photoshoped, i promise!
tisdag 19 januari 2010
Jiayuguan and Dunhuang
Okay, now i have been to Jiayuguan and Dunhuang, very intresting places that lies very close to the Gobi Desert. Jiayuguan is famous because they have the start of the Great Wall. When I arrived to Jiayuguan was it a nice taxidriver that told me all the things that I could do there. He said that he could drive me around for 50 kui to all the places that he thought was interesting. It started well, but after I had been to two places I started to be suspicious. Because it was quite far between all places and usual taking a taxi for a half day is not so cheap, but I also thought that it doesn’t matter, If he say one price I will pay it. When I came to pay he wanted 150 kui, and he hadn’t been so nice in the end. Because he just went from attraction to attraction and didn’t gave me so much time that I wanted/needed. He claimed that he had said that every attraction costed 50 kui (three attraction), altought I know he didn’t say it. He also said that he showed me the prices (stupid as! I said that I could speak a little and he think I can read a brochure. The reading is the hard thing in chinese). Well I told him that we had a problem, because I cant pay so much, but I was willing to give him 80 kui. Witch was 30 kui more than I expected, NO! I want at least 120 kui he said . Sitting in the taxi for ten minutes I said that I can give him 100, because its in the middle (although I still thought it was his mistake) and that I would not give him one kui more. He didn’t agree, so I just went leaving 100 kui and having him shouting “FUCK YOU”. Shit, a man in his 40´s screaming that, something wrong… Although I first wanted to go and tell him that if it was another day I would have beating him up I was satisfied by cursing back to him, in chinese of course : ). But still I have some great photos and it was a quite good day. And somehow I can blame myself, I know that I shouldn’t trust the taxidrivers standing at air/train station, and I still did it. Actual the taxi drivers in china are the worst kind of people.
Jiayuguan Day 1
I decide that from now never use taxi (and if I will never be nice to the drivers if they start to mess with me) if it’s not totally necessary. Day number two I didn’t had so much plans, just buy a train ticket to Dunhuang. I meet a girl at the hotel that wanted to take me to her hometown because they had some sighseen places. Okay I said, and it was the best thing I have done. I can bet that not many foreigners have been there and I also found some grottos that were really old. Really great! I also meet some Chinese guys that I lifted home with, and we ended up eating and drinking some beer. Really nice guys!, and I needed that after the horrible taxi driver.
Jiayuguan Day 2
After been a little hangover and spending a day doing nothing I was off to Dunhuang.
And it was a interesting trip. Because it was only a 6 hour journey I decided to take a cheaper ticket and sitting all the way. On the train was a great mix of different people. But the most exceptional where a bunch of Xinjiang people, there really wasn’t similar to (han)Chinese. One guy was talking nonstop for about 3 hours, sitting on a table and making jokes all over again. Probobly really amusing if it wasn’t 04.00 when he started and the fact that I could only understand one or two words.. (they have a very different language compared to Chinese (Putonghua). But my neighbor managed to fall a sleep. He was lying on my shoulder and snorvlingme and my “friend”, and in the background I had some music (not so good one, Arabic, Xinjiang or other place where they don’t have good music). After about half of the trip a policeman came and asked for passports (me and the Xinjiang people), but I explained to him it was to much trouble to take it from my bag and asked if my student ID was okay, it was : ). This is probably the oddest journey I have done and really an experience.
After arriving to Dunhuang I went for a afternoon sightseen trip. Visiting the GOBI DESERT!!!! Great, walking on endless sand dunes (okay they are ending, but my point is that they are big) and riding a camel. Nice!!
Dunhaung Day 1
Today I went to the famous Gogao grottos. Payed and looked at three big buddhas, amazing big, but no photos allowed so I can´t give you any proof that they where big. 28 meters I think they said they where. One was sleeping two where awake. Not very intresting but okay.
I also tried to go to Qinghai province, but I am only allowed go to Golmud and Xining. I will check this up better when I come to Xining(I heard that I can buy a permit that allows me to travel to other places, but I will see.). The most importing thing is take me to Jiuzhaigou(nature reserv).
Dunhuang Day 2
Jiayuguan Day 1
I decide that from now never use taxi (and if I will never be nice to the drivers if they start to mess with me) if it’s not totally necessary. Day number two I didn’t had so much plans, just buy a train ticket to Dunhuang. I meet a girl at the hotel that wanted to take me to her hometown because they had some sighseen places. Okay I said, and it was the best thing I have done. I can bet that not many foreigners have been there and I also found some grottos that were really old. Really great! I also meet some Chinese guys that I lifted home with, and we ended up eating and drinking some beer. Really nice guys!, and I needed that after the horrible taxi driver.
Jiayuguan Day 2
After been a little hangover and spending a day doing nothing I was off to Dunhuang.
And it was a interesting trip. Because it was only a 6 hour journey I decided to take a cheaper ticket and sitting all the way. On the train was a great mix of different people. But the most exceptional where a bunch of Xinjiang people, there really wasn’t similar to (han)Chinese. One guy was talking nonstop for about 3 hours, sitting on a table and making jokes all over again. Probobly really amusing if it wasn’t 04.00 when he started and the fact that I could only understand one or two words.. (they have a very different language compared to Chinese (Putonghua). But my neighbor managed to fall a sleep. He was lying on my shoulder and snorvlingme and my “friend”, and in the background I had some music (not so good one, Arabic, Xinjiang or other place where they don’t have good music). After about half of the trip a policeman came and asked for passports (me and the Xinjiang people), but I explained to him it was to much trouble to take it from my bag and asked if my student ID was okay, it was : ). This is probably the oddest journey I have done and really an experience.
After arriving to Dunhuang I went for a afternoon sightseen trip. Visiting the GOBI DESERT!!!! Great, walking on endless sand dunes (okay they are ending, but my point is that they are big) and riding a camel. Nice!!
Dunhaung Day 1
Today I went to the famous Gogao grottos. Payed and looked at three big buddhas, amazing big, but no photos allowed so I can´t give you any proof that they where big. 28 meters I think they said they where. One was sleeping two where awake. Not very intresting but okay.
I also tried to go to Qinghai province, but I am only allowed go to Golmud and Xining. I will check this up better when I come to Xining(I heard that I can buy a permit that allows me to travel to other places, but I will see.). The most importing thing is take me to Jiuzhaigou(nature reserv).
Dunhuang Day 2
fredag 8 januari 2010
Ma la song, 41 195m
I did it! 41 195 meter running!
Long time without writing and to tired to write so much today.
10 655 where running full marathon, over 50 000 people where in total running in all the different distance. 7 811 people finished the full marathon, i came on 810 place. Time 3 houre 48 min 32 sec, and I can tell that the last 9 km where really long!! So much pain, but it was worth it. I already promised to never do it again, but...
Long time without writing and to tired to write so much today.
10 655 where running full marathon, over 50 000 people where in total running in all the different distance. 7 811 people finished the full marathon, i came on 810 place. Time 3 houre 48 min 32 sec, and I can tell that the last 9 km where really long!! So much pain, but it was worth it. I already promised to never do it again, but...
tisdag 22 december 2009
Day before...
So tomorrow its christmas! Wieeee... or ?
Well of course i miss my family but what to do about it ? Well my plan is to go for iceskating, and after that go with friends and have dinner :)
Not to bad, actual we have classes tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, wierd.. but i think i will go and iceskate and do some fun instead of sitting in a cold classrom and repeating grammer...
Yeah now its cold here, about 10 degrees... but its okay i have a heater in my room. But moste of the student dont have that, so wierd that they rather save 80 kui (88 kr) and then live with like 14 degrees in the room....
But i really like the weather her, it might have rained for like 8 days in total since i arrived..
Its not happend so much here, i have more focused on the upcoming marahton. And now its only 10 days left =) I just so tired of running now that i want to run it today..
There are many parks here in Xiamen city, and big ones, i think this is Zhongshan Park (Zhongshan is a guy that have a street named for him in every major city in china, dont really remember the history.. my history memory in my brain isnt so big.. sorry Börje (my grandfathar..)).
We where taking some photos from that day, a nice day with coffee, cake and nice weather (as usual in the middle of the day).
中山公园
So my plan for the next month is to:
24-25 Dec : Have Chrismtas (almost sober.. one beer cant destroy anything ?)
31 Dec: Have New Year (totaly sober)
2 Jan: Run Marathon
11-13 Jan: Final exams
14 Jan: Fly to Lanzhuo
For the people that dont know so much about Qinghai Province (Where i think i will spend two weeks) :
Its the fourth biggest prvince in China, and the province capital (and also the biggest) city is Xining with about 1.2 million inhabitans (veryveryery small to be a province capital).
The most inhabitans are tibetans, and no special permits are needed (i think.. ). In western countries we say the tibetian plattform is the roof of the world, but actual Qinghai also is a part of that, so the correct name should be Tibetian-Qinghai...
Its not so touristed and not very exploated bu turist as Tibet, therefor its can be little harder to get around if you dont speak any mandarin.. (well see about that...)
I well see more then i arrive there, but the climate is colder, -20 to -15 i heard it can be during night, so i hope that i have not forgett how to stand cold climate...
The landscape is told to be same as tibet so thats the main reason i go there, and also for meeting tibetian culture :)
I will also hope that i would not have any problem about the altidue.. the average in province is abouve 3000 m over the ocean.
MARRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY
Thank you Maria for posting:), and all other that do that.
And i also wish everybody that looks for work and "exjob" that they find a intresting one AND get it!
Well of course i miss my family but what to do about it ? Well my plan is to go for iceskating, and after that go with friends and have dinner :)
Not to bad, actual we have classes tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, wierd.. but i think i will go and iceskate and do some fun instead of sitting in a cold classrom and repeating grammer...
Yeah now its cold here, about 10 degrees... but its okay i have a heater in my room. But moste of the student dont have that, so wierd that they rather save 80 kui (88 kr) and then live with like 14 degrees in the room....
But i really like the weather her, it might have rained for like 8 days in total since i arrived..
Its not happend so much here, i have more focused on the upcoming marahton. And now its only 10 days left =) I just so tired of running now that i want to run it today..
There are many parks here in Xiamen city, and big ones, i think this is Zhongshan Park (Zhongshan is a guy that have a street named for him in every major city in china, dont really remember the history.. my history memory in my brain isnt so big.. sorry Börje (my grandfathar..)).
We where taking some photos from that day, a nice day with coffee, cake and nice weather (as usual in the middle of the day).
中山公园
So my plan for the next month is to:
24-25 Dec : Have Chrismtas (almost sober.. one beer cant destroy anything ?)
31 Dec: Have New Year (totaly sober)
2 Jan: Run Marathon
11-13 Jan: Final exams
14 Jan: Fly to Lanzhuo
For the people that dont know so much about Qinghai Province (Where i think i will spend two weeks) :
Its the fourth biggest prvince in China, and the province capital (and also the biggest) city is Xining with about 1.2 million inhabitans (veryveryery small to be a province capital).
The most inhabitans are tibetans, and no special permits are needed (i think.. ). In western countries we say the tibetian plattform is the roof of the world, but actual Qinghai also is a part of that, so the correct name should be Tibetian-Qinghai...
Its not so touristed and not very exploated bu turist as Tibet, therefor its can be little harder to get around if you dont speak any mandarin.. (well see about that...)
I well see more then i arrive there, but the climate is colder, -20 to -15 i heard it can be during night, so i hope that i have not forgett how to stand cold climate...
The landscape is told to be same as tibet so thats the main reason i go there, and also for meeting tibetian culture :)
I will also hope that i would not have any problem about the altidue.. the average in province is abouve 3000 m over the ocean.
MARRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY
Thank you Maria for posting:), and all other that do that.
And i also wish everybody that looks for work and "exjob" that they find a intresting one AND get it!
onsdag 16 december 2009
Christmas coming closer, how do you notice ?
Well, you can notice that the decoartion in stores have a xmas tree and that the employees at mcdonalds and kfc (i only buy coffee and icecream there, and yes, some days here you still want a icecream so you can cool yourself down. But not today... brrrrrrr) wearing xmas hats..
But usual you can feel it more, like breath the atmosphere, here in chine i cant get that feeling. Maybye its just because they actual dont cellibrate Xmas as we so they just dont have it. And there are not any snow or tempuratire below zero.
We will have classes on 24th and 25th.. i guess i will miss those classes, would not feel good to sitt in a classroom when you usual will be with youre brother and sister and maybe standing on the yard with lots of snow throwing little sister in the snow.... Maybye i can find a small chinese and throw he/her instead in the ocean (its not so cold that they would die.... ) hahaha....
So whats happend last week ? Not much actual, study and eating and running... Looking forward to run the Marathon, its just 16 days left! My shape is okay, i think so at least. But realy tired of running!!
Yesterday when i was running though campus they where playing music on the street, its never quite in china.
I think nowdays i spend too much time at my computer, just checking where im going during Chinese New Year. For intrested i made a map where i suppose to go:
My Plan
If somebody that reads this have any tips please tell me ! In Thailand im looking for some cheap and noncrowded place close to Bangkok with NICE beach.
Well, im going back to charachterwriting....
I almost forgott, our univesity arranged a trip to Tulou, which is old round buildings. Quite nice, and some pictures i also have from there !
Tulou
Take care!
But usual you can feel it more, like breath the atmosphere, here in chine i cant get that feeling. Maybye its just because they actual dont cellibrate Xmas as we so they just dont have it. And there are not any snow or tempuratire below zero.
We will have classes on 24th and 25th.. i guess i will miss those classes, would not feel good to sitt in a classroom when you usual will be with youre brother and sister and maybe standing on the yard with lots of snow throwing little sister in the snow.... Maybye i can find a small chinese and throw he/her instead in the ocean (its not so cold that they would die.... ) hahaha....
So whats happend last week ? Not much actual, study and eating and running... Looking forward to run the Marathon, its just 16 days left! My shape is okay, i think so at least. But realy tired of running!!
Yesterday when i was running though campus they where playing music on the street, its never quite in china.
I think nowdays i spend too much time at my computer, just checking where im going during Chinese New Year. For intrested i made a map where i suppose to go:
My Plan
If somebody that reads this have any tips please tell me ! In Thailand im looking for some cheap and noncrowded place close to Bangkok with NICE beach.
Well, im going back to charachterwriting....
I almost forgott, our univesity arranged a trip to Tulou, which is old round buildings. Quite nice, and some pictures i also have from there !
Tulou
Take care!
onsdag 9 december 2009
Chinese Wedding and Farewelll Kevin
Sunday i went to a city nearby called Putian. This because there where a chinese wedding there that I was invited to. The wedding started little later then expected (as usual in China), we first visited the brides room (she wasnt supposed to leave the room for the hole day except of when she went around to all guest for saying thank you and giving away small gifts) and after that waited for the food. And waited we did, and food we got, loads! You guys can see that it was shitloads, and i tried them all :) The main thing on this wedding where the huge dinner, but i heard that there would be more traditional things afterwards but we had to leave due the fact that many that i went with had to work the day after...
Wedding
Farewell Kevin dinner did we had Tuesday, this becuase his leaving for going home. And if you didnt knew it he is one of my classmates.. But he treated us with dinner and it was a great one. The food you just picked and they made it, i really did like the shrimps.. and you couldnt complain over that they wherent fresh, they where still alive when they fried them, NICE
Farewell Kevin dinner
BTW, You are right Johan, but its not containing so many words of love :)
Wedding
Farewell Kevin dinner did we had Tuesday, this becuase his leaving for going home. And if you didnt knew it he is one of my classmates.. But he treated us with dinner and it was a great one. The food you just picked and they made it, i really did like the shrimps.. and you couldnt complain over that they wherent fresh, they where still alive when they fried them, NICE
Farewell Kevin dinner
BTW, You are right Johan, but its not containing so many words of love :)
tisdag 1 december 2009
Closer to Xmas
Christmas is getting closer, and I can say that it´s not easy to notice. No snow, no Christmassongs, nothing is red(except of the Chinese flag) and nobody talking about presents or the food...
I was sitting beside the lake at campus and drinking coffee and having a cake, just relaxing before the class would start. It was about 22 degrees and just that perfekt that we in sweden have the weather during the summer, but in the end of November..........
There where a competition at our University thes weekend, really amusing to watch. Different kind of sport activities like : 5000m,1500m,400,100 and so one. But the funnie thing was that it was all kinds of people that participated, all from very fit persons to fat people that running in jeans :)
It was really amusing to watch, and the chinese also thought that, so it was quite crowded. It seemed that sackjumping was the biggest event, close with some game where you where supposed to run 20m and then wait for the other competitor and then try to throw a ball and try to hit a waterbottle....
Strange but fun :)
Sunday I was spending the evening of watching a Kareoke competition when foriegners sang chinese songs and chinese where singing foriegner language. People where singing from swedish song (well, big big world.....) to opera. But the common thing for all chinese that where singing (except of emilia) where that it was love songs.....
So spending almost 3 hour of backstreetboys and alla other boyband you can imagine i was quite tired when going home and watching El Classico... (i know how it ended......)
unfortune i didnt bring my camera at the contest, but the final is this sunday so i might go there... If im craving to listning at moore love songs....
And i finaly made it to take some photos at our dining hall, but you guys should be aware of that this one is the less crowded we have at our university, and quees isnt existing! So in order to get some food you have to user youre elbow!
Photos is also from our picnic at the beachside with some friends
Competition,Cantine,Picnic and hotpot
I was sitting beside the lake at campus and drinking coffee and having a cake, just relaxing before the class would start. It was about 22 degrees and just that perfekt that we in sweden have the weather during the summer, but in the end of November..........
There where a competition at our University thes weekend, really amusing to watch. Different kind of sport activities like : 5000m,1500m,400,100 and so one. But the funnie thing was that it was all kinds of people that participated, all from very fit persons to fat people that running in jeans :)
It was really amusing to watch, and the chinese also thought that, so it was quite crowded. It seemed that sackjumping was the biggest event, close with some game where you where supposed to run 20m and then wait for the other competitor and then try to throw a ball and try to hit a waterbottle....
Strange but fun :)
Sunday I was spending the evening of watching a Kareoke competition when foriegners sang chinese songs and chinese where singing foriegner language. People where singing from swedish song (well, big big world.....) to opera. But the common thing for all chinese that where singing (except of emilia) where that it was love songs.....
So spending almost 3 hour of backstreetboys and alla other boyband you can imagine i was quite tired when going home and watching El Classico... (i know how it ended......)
unfortune i didnt bring my camera at the contest, but the final is this sunday so i might go there... If im craving to listning at moore love songs....
And i finaly made it to take some photos at our dining hall, but you guys should be aware of that this one is the less crowded we have at our university, and quees isnt existing! So in order to get some food you have to user youre elbow!
Photos is also from our picnic at the beachside with some friends
Competition,Cantine,Picnic and hotpot
fredag 20 november 2009
Fake Stone, walking backwards and jumping toghether
Okay, as you guys said i should write more about wierd things and so on. First i thought that mayby it would be very hard... NOT!!!!
Today after finishing classes me and a bunch of other people usual go on fridays to eat at a place (they serve good dumplings (jiaozi 饺子) and also good fried ones. Evertime we go to school we are passing a fontain (fontän, rätt på engelska) with some nice rocks inside. But it turned out that those are fake! Well what should i expect im in china right ? but common, making fakerocks ? Shit now im not sure if the trees are real anymore...
And today after i went out for a walk i saw a cute thing, one old man and a young women going backwards and having some kind of discussion... yeah they walked backwards ... it said its healthy..
I also saw a bunch of guys jumping rope (hoppa hopprep) toghether, it was 6 people jumping toughter and mayby 20 other that looking at them and cheering...
People that didnt knewed it i can tell for you guys that somethings in China is not possible (well it now so easy), like watching on youtube, updating this blog or drinking coffee... :)
But thanks to my parants i know can drink coffee at home without any problems, thanks :)
FakeStone
Today after finishing classes me and a bunch of other people usual go on fridays to eat at a place (they serve good dumplings (jiaozi 饺子) and also good fried ones. Evertime we go to school we are passing a fontain (fontän, rätt på engelska) with some nice rocks inside. But it turned out that those are fake! Well what should i expect im in china right ? but common, making fakerocks ? Shit now im not sure if the trees are real anymore...
And today after i went out for a walk i saw a cute thing, one old man and a young women going backwards and having some kind of discussion... yeah they walked backwards ... it said its healthy..
I also saw a bunch of guys jumping rope (hoppa hopprep) toghether, it was 6 people jumping toughter and mayby 20 other that looking at them and cheering...
People that didnt knewed it i can tell for you guys that somethings in China is not possible (well it now so easy), like watching on youtube, updating this blog or drinking coffee... :)
But thanks to my parants i know can drink coffee at home without any problems, thanks :)
FakeStone
måndag 16 november 2009
Dangerouse to take a shower
Okay, I heard many things that chinese says. And the latest one is that it is dangerouse to take a shower after you have done any physical excercise. I dont get it, how can it be dangerouse ?
One other thing that quite amusing is when the truck that washes the road come, it looks like they do it becuase they are hoping that the road will grow... My guess is it wouldnt, but who knows ? i have not tried...
i will try to be better of writing down strange things, not only whiskey,beer and food...
Ohh, the weather is like shit now, it have rained almost every day last week.. and it very cold (that what the chinese say when its about 17 deegrees.... ).
And I got a packet from sweden today, shitloads of coffee :)
One other thing that quite amusing is when the truck that washes the road come, it looks like they do it becuase they are hoping that the road will grow... My guess is it wouldnt, but who knows ? i have not tried...
i will try to be better of writing down strange things, not only whiskey,beer and food...
Ohh, the weather is like shit now, it have rained almost every day last week.. and it very cold (that what the chinese say when its about 17 deegrees.... ).
And I got a packet from sweden today, shitloads of coffee :)
söndag 15 november 2009
Boat trip
This weekend was all about going on a boat and have barbecue. So friday was preparatin day, and saturday was a big party and sunday was hangover day.
Boat trip
Today a lady come in front of me and asked for money for a bus, i said to her that i dont have any money at the moment. But the funnie thing was that she had recently bbought a icecream to her kid at mcdonalds for 2.5 kui, and the busticket is 1 kui...
Boat trip
Today a lady come in front of me and asked for money for a bus, i said to her that i dont have any money at the moment. But the funnie thing was that she had recently bbought a icecream to her kid at mcdonalds for 2.5 kui, and the busticket is 1 kui...
tisdag 10 november 2009
Back after a great weekend
The weekend was great, Friday i made some food for a bunch of people (like 9) and they enjoyed it. And the best thing is that it was only ten kui per person... So i will do that some more time, fun to be in a kitchen again, i actual miss that with my apartment, it doesnt have any kitchen...
Saturday we had a gathering with the class, whent to the beachside and had barbecue. Great food and beer, and the best part was that it was free. We got some money from school to arrange this, good to start knowing people outside the classroom also..
Still i have not been able to upload some photos because i could not find my camera. But we are lucky that we have a japanese girl in our class that take photos, so i will get them from here :)
So hopefulle tomorrow night i will have loads of photos to upload.
Saturday we had a gathering with the class, whent to the beachside and had barbecue. Great food and beer, and the best part was that it was free. We got some money from school to arrange this, good to start knowing people outside the classroom also..
Still i have not been able to upload some photos because i could not find my camera. But we are lucky that we have a japanese girl in our class that take photos, so i will get them from here :)
So hopefulle tomorrow night i will have loads of photos to upload.
söndag 8 november 2009
No internet
Okay, now im actual hava a reason for not updating my blog. I dont have any internet, i dont know why but they said that they will fix it fast as possible... Its been 3 days now..
Icehoecky was really cool, when i went there first time i rented stuff. But some guys told me that i could borrow there skates fro next time, because they have better...
Starting to be winter here, i have actual worn jeans four times now...
Okay, hoping to have more time and internet at same time so i can upload some photos from diverse happenings :)
Yeah, and the test was actual really easy, altought two part of the first test was hard. But i have also been kind of lazy at those part so it make sense that i didnt do so well..
Icehoecky was really cool, when i went there first time i rented stuff. But some guys told me that i could borrow there skates fro next time, because they have better...
Starting to be winter here, i have actual worn jeans four times now...
Okay, hoping to have more time and internet at same time so i can upload some photos from diverse happenings :)
Yeah, and the test was actual really easy, altought two part of the first test was hard. But i have also been kind of lazy at those part so it make sense that i didnt do so well..
måndag 2 november 2009
Free beer, icehockey and hot pot
Great weekend, went to a party where we had some tickets that gave us some free beer. Really nice! And alot of very seriouse people that had dressed up in Helloween costumes, nice to watch them, altought we didnt do it. Well i was dressing up as Yerking (big guy from Kazakstan) and he as a swede (me). So it was a great party altought that the bar actual was crapy, mostly the staff, but free beer makes everthing much better.....
Saturday me and some from the class helped our teacher to have a class in a bookstore. This for promoting some book, and for that we got free dinner. Really nice hotpot with loads of food, i think i eat for a whole week....
But today I had to bring my friends to go there, actual not so cheap, about 45 kui per person....:)
I also have been and played icehockey, belive it or not :) But Xiamen have everything! Okay, coffee is a problem here but....
I have not been good at updating my blog, and im not taking so much photos anymore, but i will start doing that better now. !!!!
I have some photos from the weekends party but i cant upload them now, but they will come.
Take care!
Saturday me and some from the class helped our teacher to have a class in a bookstore. This for promoting some book, and for that we got free dinner. Really nice hotpot with loads of food, i think i eat for a whole week....
But today I had to bring my friends to go there, actual not so cheap, about 45 kui per person....:)
I also have been and played icehockey, belive it or not :) But Xiamen have everything! Okay, coffee is a problem here but....
I have not been good at updating my blog, and im not taking so much photos anymore, but i will start doing that better now. !!!!
I have some photos from the weekends party but i cant upload them now, but they will come.
Take care!
måndag 26 oktober 2009
Dinner, school, lunch, run, sleep ....
I finaly started to get some rutines in my everday life... Nice, now I have some places where I can go without thinking so much:)
I actual thought that i started to understand the chinese people. Usual they are very nice to you as long that you are paying. Usual its not a problem, because like a foreigner you usual have money. But what happened if you bought a cellphone and it breaks, and you want them to repair it ? Well, if you pay them its not a problem, but as soon as you expect them to repair it for free because it actual a bad phone, what happened then?
Well nothing, you get nothing…
This was my opinion about Chinese… but shit.. then today I went to buy me a juice (fresh made.. mmmmm) and because im like the only foreigner who seems to buy there they actual gave (for free!!!) me a new kind of tea, yummy. So now I don’t know anymore, I should go back to my first opinion about Chinese, they are like girls, you cant understand them : )
For notice is my phone working again, whats going on with me, china and cellphones, they just dont want to work togheter.
Friday and Saturday there are going to be two Halloween partys, so i expect to bring up some nice photos :)
I actual thought that i started to understand the chinese people. Usual they are very nice to you as long that you are paying. Usual its not a problem, because like a foreigner you usual have money. But what happened if you bought a cellphone and it breaks, and you want them to repair it ? Well, if you pay them its not a problem, but as soon as you expect them to repair it for free because it actual a bad phone, what happened then?
Well nothing, you get nothing…
This was my opinion about Chinese… but shit.. then today I went to buy me a juice (fresh made.. mmmmm) and because im like the only foreigner who seems to buy there they actual gave (for free!!!) me a new kind of tea, yummy. So now I don’t know anymore, I should go back to my first opinion about Chinese, they are like girls, you cant understand them : )
For notice is my phone working again, whats going on with me, china and cellphones, they just dont want to work togheter.
Friday and Saturday there are going to be two Halloween partys, so i expect to bring up some nice photos :)
söndag 18 oktober 2009
Bike tour !
Long time and no blogging, but mayby that just because after Yun nan the life here seems to be very ordinary. But actual its not, this weekend was great. A Friday with dinner and just relaxing after a loooooong schoolweek we where a bunch of guys that got together for have a bicycle tour around the island. We gathered at 9 in the morning and started to buy stuff for the tour, lot of fruit and of course beer.
We had a geniuse idea of getting ice from McDonalds and brought some buckets so we could have cold beer for the hole trip. It worked very well, and its nice to drive those four bicycles that looks like a car. Then you actual don’t have to worry about losing you´re balance. After the tour wich lasted about 8 hours we went for food. Well I have to admit that we didn’t make it around the island, but I think it was because the equipment wasn’t the best and we (read me : ) ) priority to drink beer and just enjoying the views. We went to some nice beaches and also had a great time. Some of our crew went tired after been out and drinking all day so they went home after dinner, but four of us joined the French guys (actual it was Jeremy and Virginity) to go to 123 bar. Because of Virginity, Liselot and Alaid is working there (sitting and drinking and just pretend they have fun) we got free drinks. AWSOME! I was also quite tired but we stayed a bit after 01.30 and then went home.
Yesterday I bought some running shoes, I hope they not will be fake and that I can use them when running the marathon. I don’t know if I wrote it before but in about 76 days there is a big marathon here in Xiamen, and I hope to be able to run it, almost 43 km, I also hope that I will be in a okay shape. So its time to start running for sure now!
Bike Tour
We had a geniuse idea of getting ice from McDonalds and brought some buckets so we could have cold beer for the hole trip. It worked very well, and its nice to drive those four bicycles that looks like a car. Then you actual don’t have to worry about losing you´re balance. After the tour wich lasted about 8 hours we went for food. Well I have to admit that we didn’t make it around the island, but I think it was because the equipment wasn’t the best and we (read me : ) ) priority to drink beer and just enjoying the views. We went to some nice beaches and also had a great time. Some of our crew went tired after been out and drinking all day so they went home after dinner, but four of us joined the French guys (actual it was Jeremy and Virginity) to go to 123 bar. Because of Virginity, Liselot and Alaid is working there (sitting and drinking and just pretend they have fun) we got free drinks. AWSOME! I was also quite tired but we stayed a bit after 01.30 and then went home.
Yesterday I bought some running shoes, I hope they not will be fake and that I can use them when running the marathon. I don’t know if I wrote it before but in about 76 days there is a big marathon here in Xiamen, and I hope to be able to run it, almost 43 km, I also hope that I will be in a okay shape. So its time to start running for sure now!
Bike Tour
söndag 11 oktober 2009
Ohh, his back, his the man behind the...
Back to ordinary life now (more or less), and the school started with class on Friday and Saturday. Now you wonder why we had class on Saturday, but actual its not so strange (for be China), because of the holiday we missed some classes and have to catch up… Well yeah its strange, you get free days from school but you have to work on weekends.. so not so free actual
But its nice to be back, Friday Diedrek came back from Taiwan and he what he told me its much better then China. Like all the bad things about China (like pollutions, girls wearing pyamas on street, and sneakers with suites…) its not existing in Taiwan. Actual they are somewhat more civilizes then Chinese. It still was much more expensive but not so bad, only that he said that the beer where expensive. But he also said that the coffee was cheaper and that you actual could find good bread with cheese and that all together it means that the breakfast problem is solved. Nice, nice ! I also meet a guy who tipsed me about a Swedish company that he worked for that was on Taipei…
Well nice to be back. Saturday also was quite nice, I came up with the idea of filling a bucket with ice and put beer into it. Said and done me and Diederik did this and brought the bucket to the beach party, cheap beer and really coold :).
I also putting up some more photos from my treeking days, but this time its not mine, so now there actual is photos of me..
Lees And Kerrys Photos
But its nice to be back, Friday Diedrek came back from Taiwan and he what he told me its much better then China. Like all the bad things about China (like pollutions, girls wearing pyamas on street, and sneakers with suites…) its not existing in Taiwan. Actual they are somewhat more civilizes then Chinese. It still was much more expensive but not so bad, only that he said that the beer where expensive. But he also said that the coffee was cheaper and that you actual could find good bread with cheese and that all together it means that the breakfast problem is solved. Nice, nice ! I also meet a guy who tipsed me about a Swedish company that he worked for that was on Taipei…
Well nice to be back. Saturday also was quite nice, I came up with the idea of filling a bucket with ice and put beer into it. Said and done me and Diederik did this and brought the bucket to the beach party, cheap beer and really coold :).
I also putting up some more photos from my treeking days, but this time its not mine, so now there actual is photos of me..
Lees And Kerrys Photos
söndag 4 oktober 2009
Fight Fight! And Dali
After been a short time in Shangri-la I finaly made it to Dali. When I arrived I made a mistake thinking that I was in old Dali, which according to my note I wouldn’t be. But after I realizeld that the old city was too new to be called old Dali I grabbed a taxi. Here I meet in my opinion the most stupid taxidriver. When I told him where I wanted to go he said that he wanted 40 kui, which can sound little but its quite lot here (haircut, lunch, dinner and lots of bear). About the taxi driver, when he was driving he would turn of the ignition when it was downhill. Many things that is hard to describe made quite angry at him, he also wanted to have pay to get back, because it was so far he said. 15 km is not so far, and when you can get about 20 km for about 15 kui you realize how overprized he was. He also refused to drive on taximeter. Well, when I knew where we where I said to him to drop me of (he did not knew even when he had talked with the people at the hostel), I grabed my bag and got out of the cab. I paid him half of the demanded sum, even if that was overprized I really did not feel to pay the way back when he was such a bad driver. I can also say that the Chinese taxidriver get paid even if they not drive. So all this money he got he just put in his own pocket….hate people that not are honest…
Dali is nice, nice place for hanging out and just chilling. Met two guys from England and we decided to go to the lake, ended up in a unforgettable drive whit the smallest bikes you can ride : ) Through a big ricefield and a dirty part of the city we finaly made it to the lake.
Yesterday I spent walking around and looking at souvenirs, although I don’t buy anything, just because its so much shit and I don’t like the idea if carry it for some more days… In the evening we all guys went out for some beer and barbecue, it was awesome, but the best thing was that we meet a bunch of Chinese girls that didn’t speak much English. I was the only one that knewed a little Chinese so I could show of a little… ok, mayby not but I did practice my Chinese : )
When I woke up today I decided to rest in my bed so long as I could, which means to about 11.00. And I also got some entertainment over my morning coffee. Two guys (one elder American and a other strange guy) had a big quarrel. The strange guy where accusing the American to kill civilian, and the amercian told him that he was a : bitch, insane, stupid,tiny,littly…. Well a lot of things, but actual it was quite strange to see two guys in that age behaving more like five years.. Although the American had right, he was just sitting there and the other guy just jumped on him.. well after about 40 minutes of shouting and so on the show ended up that the wiser guy (American) walked away, and my coffee was empty so the fun was over …
Well today I heading to Kunming, just for passing it and sleep there so I don’t miss my flight to Shenzhen.. visiting Henry for a day and then get back to University and reality (although it does not feel as been in China is reality ..)
Silly bike ride
Dali is nice, nice place for hanging out and just chilling. Met two guys from England and we decided to go to the lake, ended up in a unforgettable drive whit the smallest bikes you can ride : ) Through a big ricefield and a dirty part of the city we finaly made it to the lake.
Yesterday I spent walking around and looking at souvenirs, although I don’t buy anything, just because its so much shit and I don’t like the idea if carry it for some more days… In the evening we all guys went out for some beer and barbecue, it was awesome, but the best thing was that we meet a bunch of Chinese girls that didn’t speak much English. I was the only one that knewed a little Chinese so I could show of a little… ok, mayby not but I did practice my Chinese : )
When I woke up today I decided to rest in my bed so long as I could, which means to about 11.00. And I also got some entertainment over my morning coffee. Two guys (one elder American and a other strange guy) had a big quarrel. The strange guy where accusing the American to kill civilian, and the amercian told him that he was a : bitch, insane, stupid,tiny,littly…. Well a lot of things, but actual it was quite strange to see two guys in that age behaving more like five years.. Although the American had right, he was just sitting there and the other guy just jumped on him.. well after about 40 minutes of shouting and so on the show ended up that the wiser guy (American) walked away, and my coffee was empty so the fun was over …
Well today I heading to Kunming, just for passing it and sleep there so I don’t miss my flight to Shenzhen.. visiting Henry for a day and then get back to University and reality (although it does not feel as been in China is reality ..)
Silly bike ride
lördag 3 oktober 2009
3 days treeking, no shower and nice views :)
Now I have been to a very remote part of Yunnan province (actual quite remote in China if you only counting provincences we are allowed to go to). I went to a small village called Yunbencun, who is a tibetan village that nowdays almost provide themselves on tourist, but what I understood it just the last 5-10 years they have done that. The people can be the nicest people I meet, they actual helped you without thinking of taking money from you. I went there with a couple which I meet on my hostel in Feiling temple. They are very nice and its really easy to travel with them because they are very good to arrange things, actual it’s the first time I go and travel (except my perents) when I not have to think by myself so much. They are also really nice so there are two big benefits of this, well three if you count that they are better on Chinese then me, not so strange if they are from china….
To go to this village we first had to rent a car and go up and down for about a hour, and after that we had a 8 hour walk (usual it take about 5-6 but we were not in a hurry). I had been worried about that the hight would do that my condition would be our limit. But it was not! Actual I think I never got tired of our hole journey, well little but not that much. After walking we arrived at lower Yubencun and stayed there for a night. The views from the “balcony” was awesome, I spend over a hour just looking at it. There is some picture of it, it’s the ones where you have a lake and some small buildings and a mountain in the background.
Picture until lower Yubencun
After sleeping we wake up quite early to have breakfast and start walking to the “secret” waterfall, well it was not so secret because all people went there. But the views where quite nice, although I was a bit disappointed, so I walked faster and went on a detour, and went home hour earlier to sleep. The thing of the waterfall is some religious things, the people here have a own language and its not similar to anything else, all the small flags with different colors with text on it has the meaning of that the wind will carry the language away and everybody will now about it. So the locals go up there and running around the waterfall for good luck and healthy life and balbablabablba……
The second night we stayed at upper Yubencun, and it was even nicer than the lower. Here I also had my first real Chinese shit. Its when you sitting on you’re heels and shiting without holding in anything. I also had fried rice and egg to breakfast (I don’t like it but what the hell, I have to learn if im not going to be ruined(the bread and cheese is not a option, because its so expensive)). We also had a real hot pot, there are some picture of a fire and some food, awesome!
Waterfall and UpperYubencun
So after have spent two night I was´nt satisfield of the views, we had a long discussion about hurry to Shangri-la so I could make it to Tiger leaping Gorge, but when I heard about a dangerous longer road back I thought what the hell, I take that one instead. And after that Lee (Lee and Karry are the couple) had worried about my shoes and that it would be too dangerous (the Chinese are very caring, at the waterfall one guy said to me that I should be carefull about my cold, its very dangerous to have a cold…….. just coughing a little is NOT SO DANGEROUSE) . But after talking a little we agreed to go.
We started quite late because we did´nt want to hurry this because some parts are actual dangerous For real, some places you had only 10 cm to walk at, one side it was a trench with 20 cm of icecold water and the other side it was a cliff and about 100- 200 meter straight down… This part was about 5km and our guide forbid me to take any pictures, this because he wanted us to be focus on the walking. But I found a way so he accepted that I took picture, I sat down and when I was using my camera. Although I did not take as much picture as I would like because of the risk.. I also have Lees pictures so I have some cool shots… About cool shots, there where two guys that died last year because they wanted to take some cool shots, and they fell in the river. They actual fell into the river at one of the safest places, just of lacking of respect of the nature…
Dangerous walk
And after the Dangerous walk our guide left us for the safe road back. But what he did not mention was that the road where same… so not so safe… And talking about the road back… with the car.. lucky that I was so blunted (swe = avtrubbad ) that I did not cared…
Not dangerous
Also some pictures from Deqin (the city you just passing to go to Feilai temple or Yubencun) and the road back to Shangri-la.
Safe road back
To go to this village we first had to rent a car and go up and down for about a hour, and after that we had a 8 hour walk (usual it take about 5-6 but we were not in a hurry). I had been worried about that the hight would do that my condition would be our limit. But it was not! Actual I think I never got tired of our hole journey, well little but not that much. After walking we arrived at lower Yubencun and stayed there for a night. The views from the “balcony” was awesome, I spend over a hour just looking at it. There is some picture of it, it’s the ones where you have a lake and some small buildings and a mountain in the background.
Picture until lower Yubencun
After sleeping we wake up quite early to have breakfast and start walking to the “secret” waterfall, well it was not so secret because all people went there. But the views where quite nice, although I was a bit disappointed, so I walked faster and went on a detour, and went home hour earlier to sleep. The thing of the waterfall is some religious things, the people here have a own language and its not similar to anything else, all the small flags with different colors with text on it has the meaning of that the wind will carry the language away and everybody will now about it. So the locals go up there and running around the waterfall for good luck and healthy life and balbablabablba……
The second night we stayed at upper Yubencun, and it was even nicer than the lower. Here I also had my first real Chinese shit. Its when you sitting on you’re heels and shiting without holding in anything. I also had fried rice and egg to breakfast (I don’t like it but what the hell, I have to learn if im not going to be ruined(the bread and cheese is not a option, because its so expensive)). We also had a real hot pot, there are some picture of a fire and some food, awesome!
Waterfall and UpperYubencun
So after have spent two night I was´nt satisfield of the views, we had a long discussion about hurry to Shangri-la so I could make it to Tiger leaping Gorge, but when I heard about a dangerous longer road back I thought what the hell, I take that one instead. And after that Lee (Lee and Karry are the couple) had worried about my shoes and that it would be too dangerous (the Chinese are very caring, at the waterfall one guy said to me that I should be carefull about my cold, its very dangerous to have a cold…….. just coughing a little is NOT SO DANGEROUSE) . But after talking a little we agreed to go.
We started quite late because we did´nt want to hurry this because some parts are actual dangerous For real, some places you had only 10 cm to walk at, one side it was a trench with 20 cm of icecold water and the other side it was a cliff and about 100- 200 meter straight down… This part was about 5km and our guide forbid me to take any pictures, this because he wanted us to be focus on the walking. But I found a way so he accepted that I took picture, I sat down and when I was using my camera. Although I did not take as much picture as I would like because of the risk.. I also have Lees pictures so I have some cool shots… About cool shots, there where two guys that died last year because they wanted to take some cool shots, and they fell in the river. They actual fell into the river at one of the safest places, just of lacking of respect of the nature…
Dangerous walk
And after the Dangerous walk our guide left us for the safe road back. But what he did not mention was that the road where same… so not so safe… And talking about the road back… with the car.. lucky that I was so blunted (swe = avtrubbad ) that I did not cared…
Not dangerous
Also some pictures from Deqin (the city you just passing to go to Feilai temple or Yubencun) and the road back to Shangri-la.
Safe road back
tisdag 29 september 2009
Deqin and Feitai
Okay, now im arrived in Deqin, or well I arrived there went ripped off over a meal (rice and some pork, it was good but it should not cost 23 kui), and took a taxi from that place. Found a nice hostel and some persons which im going for a three day haik : ) (Now mom and dad will be happy that im not alone). At the moment I don’t feel almost anything from the hight (its about 4200m here) but little headache but its common I heard. And its also much harder to walk in stairs, but its worth it.
A lot of friendly people at this hostel, a family from Singapore asked me to tried Tibetan butter tea, strange taste, but I think its good as breakfast, just because there have a lot of carbons … . The views at the bus from Shangri-la to Deqin was even nicer then from Kunming to Shangri-la. The road was okay, but the safety was Chinese. With that meaning that it was no fences…. Also interesting that in every bus stop we stopped for going to the bathroom we had to pay about 0.5 to 1 kui. The toilets is not so nice (like very dirty and disgusting) , so it´s you actual is not paying for a clean toilet. I thought a rather pied outside id, but the old man still demanded money. I paid just because I did not have the time to argue.. (There is a photo on him, so I will put it up somewhere where I will have my list over Chinese people that I don’t like … )
They also have real coffee her (bryggkaffe, home smashed beans..) , looking forward to the breakfast tomorrow. Although it’s a problem that its still expensive, but it´ts free refill so I might take a third cup now..
What you where saying Johan I also think its different taste if the dog size is different.. Also nice that you are making comments : ) . Congrats to my brother also who is keeping his job.
Busride views from My hostel
A lot of friendly people at this hostel, a family from Singapore asked me to tried Tibetan butter tea, strange taste, but I think its good as breakfast, just because there have a lot of carbons … . The views at the bus from Shangri-la to Deqin was even nicer then from Kunming to Shangri-la. The road was okay, but the safety was Chinese. With that meaning that it was no fences…. Also interesting that in every bus stop we stopped for going to the bathroom we had to pay about 0.5 to 1 kui. The toilets is not so nice (like very dirty and disgusting) , so it´s you actual is not paying for a clean toilet. I thought a rather pied outside id, but the old man still demanded money. I paid just because I did not have the time to argue.. (There is a photo on him, so I will put it up somewhere where I will have my list over Chinese people that I don’t like … )
They also have real coffee her (bryggkaffe, home smashed beans..) , looking forward to the breakfast tomorrow. Although it’s a problem that its still expensive, but it´ts free refill so I might take a third cup now..
What you where saying Johan I also think its different taste if the dog size is different.. Also nice that you are making comments : ) . Congrats to my brother also who is keeping his job.
Busride views from My hostel
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