China | Dominik Mayer – Products, Asia, Productivity

25 Degrees Celsisus

First day without coat. Yesterday was also very warm but you still needed one inside.

I Bought a Bike

Shopping center

Shopping center with large E-mart

Bike

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.

Bike

Trying it on campus

Production date

I even know its “birthday”

Gourmet Restaurants

Gourmet restaurants

Why is there a dog on the sign?

Lunch Off Campus

Chinese arabic food

Chinese Arabic food. Wow, this was really good.

Above Tongji

Tongji
Tongji
Tongji
Tongji
Shanghai
Shanghai
Tongji
International student dorm

Views from the not too safe International Students Dorm.

Campus Shots

Tongji

Medical School

Tongji
Tongji
Tongji
Cat on the tree

Cat on the tree

Cat on the tree

No one tried to find a ladder or someone to help the poor kitten. Perhaps they were too busy to get back to all their Hello Kitty stuff… Our Chinese wasn’t good enough to plan a rescue mission.

Tongji
Tongji

Dorm

Cats in love

Cats in love

Tongji

International School and School of Foreign Languages

Tongji

Small cafeteria in front of the International Students Dorm

Tongji

Student ID

Tongji
Tongji

We didn’t need admission, passport or any other document. Everyone could have picked a Chinese name from the list, gotten a picture taken and he’d have a nice Tongji student ID like mine within minutes:

Student ID

The counter is directly behind the desk with the camera. Explains the picture. ;-)

Cleanup

Cafeteria

I seem to eat the same things every day. Rice and something green. This time there was just a small piece of meat in it, a fruit fly.

Cafeteria

A classmate chose tofu and egg.

The problem: The egg contained a larger quantity of meat which ended up here, together with all the other unappetizing things that have been lying on our table:

Cafeteria
Cafeteria
Cafeteria

I’m sure they’ll take care of it.

Chopsticks

Cleaned chopsticks.

Salad, Floor and Banana Bread

Salad

Salad

Wooden floor

Wooden floor with flowers

Banana Grape Bread

Banana Grape Bread.

What Is It?

We walked past a broken vending machine when a friend asked his Chinese friend what’s been in there. She said it’s something you can get everywhere. You don’t have to pay for it. It’s only for older people, not young ones or students. It can also be found at Tongji.

The first one that posts the right answer will get a postcard.

Hint: I just repeat what she said.

Two Sides

The inside of Tongji School of Foreign Languages:

Tongji School of Foreign Languages
Tongji School of Foreign Languages
Tongji School of Foreign Languages

And the outside:

Tongji School of Foreign Languages
Tongji School of Foreign Languages

A New Day at Tongji

Tongji
Tongji
Noodles with tofu

Noodles with tofu. I took two bites of the tofu and decided to only eat the noodles.

Tongji

Mao in front of the library. It was the first time I noticed that the two towers of library seem to hover above the lower building.

Tongji
Tongji