So many things happened and I totally had no time to blog about it and yeah, we had a small problem with not being able to go online for a few days already. internet suddenly turned off here..
well, once without internet one realizes how much free time there is. we spend the days sleeping and cooking. a few more days without internet and we would have started learning -.-#
a bunch of nerdy looking loud chinese guys just came and fixed it...YAAAY!

yesterday we managed to flood our living room. you don't even want to know how..


ok, now about the last week.

I've met up with my language partner, who is a super nice guy and really wants to help me with chinese. we went to Tian'an men and I finnaly could see this famous Mao poster...Tian'an men is huge, like really HUGE! and very..how do I put it...communistic!


well, the next day we went to see the new national theater.

it is also huge (everything in beijing seems to be huge, srly) and very modern and just simply amazing. afterwards we've seen some Hutongs (less fascinating I have to admit) and Laoshe's house:


Went to some chinese bars and a club. very nice indeed, even though pretty small..well, met Mr. Rugby there, can't complain.though he keeps calling me, I hate talking to chinese on the phone...not understanding nada.

The most beautiful thing so far was the Beijing Oper!
It is very loud, you don't understand much and it gets a bit boring a few times, but the costumes and make up a really worth watching it. especially the second part with acrobatics impressed us all. definitely a must for every tourist.








got a cold these days and had to buy some chinese medicine agains coughs.good thing, they should sell it in germany too.

japanese food, transporting trees and sleeping men on the bus..everyday something new

Vali's mom came for a day to beijing because of work and we had a nice japanese dinner. since I wasn't feeling all that well, I could only eat some soba, but got better after like 7 cups of green tee..
this is what the others had:



afterwards we've seen something interesting on the way back home


yesterday a sleeping man almost fell on my shoulder on the bus...I am glad he woke up or else I wouldn't know what to do

they make pictures of us, we make pictures of them...keeping it fair here!

some pictures of the beautiful campus we have







actually the place with the bamboos is some meeting room for the V.I.Ps, even Clinton has been there. it is usually closed and no one is allowed in, especially students, but the guard was too eager to speak some english with us and let us have a look....such a cutie, trying to play a guide and explaining us what this building is for. being a foreigner and looking different sometimes has it's advantages.

only 2€ for this thing..I could get used to the prices

random people on the street saying "I luv U"....nice!

dinner, karaoke and a lot of soju...

Yesterday we had our welcoming dinner. I think the picture will speak for itself:

I have to say, our university is pretty fancy:



afterwards we decided to go drink soju and sing some songs. Karaoke here is a lot cheaper than in germany and the place looked really nice. Singing songs in all different languages is so much fun too, especially korean pop rocks a lot after a few bottles of soju.




our korean friend is fun when she is drunk, suddenly she starts speaking only korean, but we kinda understood everything. weird.
and being more dead than alive we had to go to class today...-.-#

smog over Beijing

I was positively surprised to see clear blue sky the first day I came here. there are good days, when the sky is blue the whole morning, there are also bad days when you can't really say if it is clouded or smoggy. it doesn't bother so much while breathing, but after walking around for half an hour you can feel the dust in your mouth. at the end of the day the hair gets really dusty and feels weird when you touch it. but I guess one can deal with it! can't wait for the winter and the snow to cover the dust a little bit.

"last supper"

the smallest and the tastiest watermelon ever!

and an other day full of adventures!

our day started with the search for the cesuo (厕所 toilet). we went to a place where they where selling shredded ice with some syrup on it which we wanted to try and they had a clean toilet too. we didn't get the ice though, since the whole menu was in chinese without any pictures. instead we got something really strange and icky, like some kind of soup with rice and beans and ..stuff in it, which I don't want to eat ever again. so the second time we ordered from the pictures they had on the wall. tasted really good.
afterwards we went back home to wait for the landlord. turns out we just needed a new plunger because our wasn't doing it's job..so yeah..we can finally..you know..find our inner peace^^
afterwards our korean friend came by and I went with her to try to finally get this shredded ice:


I could eat it every day, no kidding!

we also met some other foreigners today, some guys who will work as kindergarten teachers. they have a really really nice apartment and so much fun to talk too. one of them is australian and talks non-stop, but has a lot of hilarious stories to share. so we went to the korea town with them.
Me and Soon finally found ddukbokki 떡볶기, korean spice rice cakes. I think I can die happy now since I finally tasted it and I loved it ..maybe too much.


and to end this post..
a few funny pictures of china:
university





and look how dirty our bathroom has been