Andis China - 安弟的中国 - 欢迎你们

Jinsha Site Museum

2008-10-06T23:54:00.000-07:00

To show, we also do other things here besides party *smirk*

2 weeks ago we went to the Jinsha Site Museum, its a museum about the "primitive times" in the Suchuan area. About 3000 years ago! It was one of the most developed areas in the world I think...

Besides the rich vegetation, also the people who lived there obtained a comparatively rich culture. For example they had proper clothes and housing - including dishing/kitchen things and a lot of jewelry that u can see on the following pictures. This museum is built on an archeological excavation site, where u can see the original excavation position of each artefact... wucuowei ^^ (my favorite expression in chinese - what means "not so important/never mind" and not so much "I don't care")... wucuowei

On left side u see the Chengdu delta, on right some of the primitive civilians, we have visited ^^

also this very old tree was worth enough to make a picture of it ^^

Temples Temples Temples

2008-10-03T00:42:00.000-07:00

Here you can see the rest of the Brazilians (Miguel, Chico, Alex and me ^^)

The people from my dorm - may I introduce a little?

2008-10-02T23:56:00.000-07:00

Andre (one of the 6 Brazilians), Behind him you can see some of the red Pandas!

Michael from Germany (the young man in black)

The Brazilian guys Alex, Graffite and Bruno(They and the other 3 Brazilians are the party guys in our dorm, who I blame for a lot of clubbing fun ^^) On right u see Celine - she now starts her study of economics in Berlin!
Huy(Vietnam), Sarah(classmate), Savar(Uzbekistan), Ludovig(France)

My neighbour Imman from a tiny caribbean island called Grenada

Chengdu - life

2008-10-02T23:12:00.000-07:00

My german classmate Sarah in front of Chengdu nightlife:

Iris' Birthday

2008-09-20T22:01:00.000-07:00

Two days ago it was Iris' Birthday. Probably the most alcoholized and actually also very nice party...

But sth. maybe I just explain like this:

"Of sparkling wine one can´t get a breakdown.
That happens merely with hard alcohol, like wodka.
He said, stumbled aside and barfed directly onto the street."

somebody is lost *smirk*

PANDA

2008-09-19T22:12:00.000-07:00

Chengdu is probably the most important place if you want to experience pandas - here are more than 80% of the worlds population, what's about some hundreds of this kind of giant panda bears. One of the reasons is, that they are too lazy to fight or run, and even too lazy for sex... what is happening maybe 1x in a year.

Chengdu - arrival

2008-09-08T22:20:00.000-07:00

September 1st I arrived at Chengdu Main Trainstation. Wang Laoshi(2nd Dean for foreign students) picked me up at the train station. We arrived at a nice building with lots of videocameras. After some burocracy things i entered my room. The dust was about 2mm lying on everything. After some complains they sent some staff to clean my room (I pay 70€/month at the moment). Then finally I could take a shower and go to bed. After this long trip from Wuhan... unfortunately I got a cold the day after. So the next 5 days I just lived between the cafeteria and my dormitory... ate a lot of fruits and other healthy things. Very quickly I found good friends, who are still always around me.

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If I didnt sleep or ate I played some soccer, basketball, badminton or went to party. No sooner I was regenerated the party time started with 6 days in a row. A lot of fun. A lot of friends. But expensive. Well 1,5€/beer is still very very cheap. But not so cheap I was calculating with... anyway - chinese only go to club if they really have to celebrate something or they are just decadent.
Foreigners r often like stars. Many(not any) natives enjoying to be with foreigners and give us a lot of drinks for free... Chengdu has not so many resident aliens(found this expression on leo ^^) it seems.

First résumé

2008-09-06T00:58:00.000-07:00

I feel like drunk. I don't have to drink anything. It's just this culture. For me it's just lovely, friendly, impressive and unknown. But in such an amplitude, that I feel like on drugs. Unreal, flying, himalayan adrenalin level? Whatever... you know the score ;)

What will happen next?
I don't know.

What happened?
I don't really know.

What's happening?
I don't know.

Just go witha flow.

Wuhan to Chengdu by train

2008-09-04T21:28:00.000-07:00

The train station - all the sitting people in this hall will take the same train as me ...

This is was probably the longest sitting train session I ever had.
I took a seat place for 17€. This train journey was in a very crowded wagon with 5 seats in a row(2+2 left and 3+3 right). My seat in the 6 ppl arrangement was on the window. Left from me was a couple with a baby and in front of me also a couple with a small child and in front of me an old farmer. A lot of people had no seat and must stand in this narrow gangway, where all the time salesman had to come through with their small cabines in them they brought fruits, drinks, hot soup and ricedishes to the people (cost ~ 0,3€).
It was a night-trip from 17 pm to 11:30 am.

I was the only foreigner.
Well, and now you imagine that all of them interested watching you, most smiling. I think it was the most effective chinese language and culture training I ever had - very recommendable! Well you must get used to such travelling.

After a time we shared feelings, food and sweat. And the people stopped to star on me after they first checked my different appearance. Most of them see foreigners only in TV probably...
At midnight I had to stand up because the chinese couples been very tired and the childrens couldnt sleep and cried. So it came that I wandered from one person to another and talked to many many until I found a chinese Student who talked english and with who I could talk mor than just a better smalltalk. Oh and I should mention, that I needed really long to be able to understand a single word from those people dialect! But it was also for this student whose english was absolutely poor in the beginning but improved so much during our conversation...

All the chinese I met yet, seemed to be very open and flexible.

Wuhan

2008-09-04T21:18:00.000-07:00

Hey, finally I got internet in my room in Chengdu and can tell further. Now about the time in Wuhan. (28th to 31st)

It was raining buckets when I arrived in Wuhan. I asked some chinese people to call Fibi(my contact in Wuhan) from the bus, because it was after 11pm already. She adviced me to leave the bus and take a taxi, which brought me to the hotel that fibi organized for me. She and her dad welcomed me there.

The procedure was similar to Nanjing and Shanghai.
In Wuhan I visited an ancient tower, a buddhist temple and some other places...

I feed you with pictures ;-)

Jade Schnikschnak

After the Huanghehuo we visited a buddhism temple...

my favourite Baozi-restaurant(the things on the right side) - where I ate a LOT of, bcs very delicious and cheap (5 pieces/0,20€)

The highway from Nanjing to Wuhan

2008-08-30T08:32:00.000-07:00

I went by bus, because there were no train tickets left. It was planned to have an 8h way but it came different. Half an hour after we started the bus driver told us to take the baggage out of the "baggage room" and put it somewhere into the bus (on our seats). He said that because some people came and put many many goods into this "baggage room" which we transported to wuhan. It must been something inofficial...

The Bus drivers are really crazy in China. The craziest thing was on the highway, when the bus in front of us just drove onto the oncoming traffic highway. In germany we call this ghost-drivers ^^. Well, he did that at a road construction place and was therefore able to pass all other cars that couldnt move. The oncoming traffic just tooted... like all the other cars that had to wait at this road construction place.

But at least I could see the City Hefei and a very nice highway rest place.

a new city is being born...

Because of that we arrived in Wuhan 2 hours later and lost another hour when the good been unloaded... after some time (it was 11PM) I just left the bus and took a taxi to meet Fibi (Jiang Fan who is Lulus Cousin).

Nanjing (Jiangsu)

2008-08-29T19:25:00.000-07:00

To Nanjing I came by train in ca. 3h (from Shanghai) and payed only about 7€ for the ticket.

Kuno picked me up and with some luck we found a hotel room 20,90€/night.

I spent 3 days in this modern and ancient city.

We visited the 1st Yangtse Riverbridge in Nanjing, which also was many years worlds longest bridge (Kuno said its about 9km long) - Changjiangjiao(Jangtsebridge).

The day before I climbed onto the purple Mountain(not so high), where also is the Dr. Sun-Yatsens Mausoleum.
Later I visited the Martyrs Museum and some other places.
Oh, and I fell in love, that I have to share with others :-(
the chinese food ...
:-)

... and met a lot of kind and interesting people.

The following pictures will tell you more...

This is the Nanjing Museum

Kuno said, that Nanjing has probably Chinas biggest sweetwater harbour.

Shanghai

2008-08-26T08:45:00.000-07:00

22.08.08 Time to go!

It was interesting at the Frankfurt airport, when a small chinese woman spitted very loudly into a bin and all people looked at her... very funny.
And I thought, oh my god, what am I doing? I really want to be in China for a whole year?

Fortunately I was just positive surprised in Shanghai. Nobody is spitting here. It's just like in europe.

In Shanghai I arrived at Pudong(river Pu divides Shanghai in a western and an eastern part, this is the east part) Airport and went by bus to the Jin'An Temple, where I met Zhang Mu. A very nice girl, who showed me a cheap hotel and the following 2 days we made a Shanghai tour together.

Next day friends joined...

and more skyscrapers...

This is Puxi (western part of Shanghai)

last meal in Shanghai...

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