Life in China | Dominik Mayer – Products, Asia, Productivity
In 2008 and 2009 I spent 1.5 years studying Chinese at Tongji University in Shanghai. This is my way to China, these are my experiences in Shanghai.
I arrive in China on page 15.
Above Tongji
Views from the not too safe International Students Dorm.
Lunch Off Campus
Chinese Arabic food. Wow, this was really good.
Gourmet Restaurants
Why is there a dog on the sign?
I Bought a Bike
Shopping center with large E-mart
The bike was 359 Yuan (about 33 Euro), the lock 99,90 Yuan. I hope it won’t be stolen. My landlady even thinks it’s dangerous to put it in the corridor on 14th floor. I mean, it’s just our apartment and another one. And I have the lock. If it’s been stolen here then it won’t survive a single week in the city. Let’s hope the best.
Trying it on campus
I even know its “birthday”
25 Degrees Celsisus
First day without coat. Yesterday was also very warm but you still needed one inside.
600 Mg
Now that my left foot got better the right one started to hurt. How can that be? I’ve been in perfect condition when I left Germany and since then I’ve been struggling with one disease after the other. My German doctor confirmed the diagnosis of the hospital and told me to take 600 mg Ibuprofen twice a day to get rid of the inflammation. That has to help.
Small Noodles
I’ve heard that these noodles should be better than the larger ones but couldn’t tell the noodle man to make me some. Today he was cooking them for a woman so I had the chance to also try some. They are good.
Tongji at Night
View back to the main entrance
Mao and the library
Library, reverse side
Camera next to the computer center
No Spiegel Online in China?
German news site Spiegel Online seems not to be available without VPN. Probably due to their coverage of the situation in Tibet.
Check this article on The Atlantic for details about Chinese internet censorship. (Thanks to Google Blogoscoped for the link.)
Poor Little Laundry
We’re also having a top loading washing machine here, but the basket is mounted horizontally, not vertically as in the one I had used before. My landlady explained me how to operate it last week. It only works with cold water and, to make things even worse, she only used the shortest program. Bottom line: The laundry felt as if it had just been wetted and didn’t smell fresh at all.
Today I wanted to use the thing by myself. And then she came. No idea what she said exactly but again I wasn’t allowed use one of the longer programs. :-( I’m going crazy. I want clean things.
I could wash them again when she isn’t looking…
View From the Window
Stitched
Another Restaurant
Dirty glasses and a foil on top of the tablecloth.
But the food was good:
