The first rainy day in Jinan meant another day at home, making photos of the apartment and executing some household tasks. Today was as lazy as yesterday, or maybe even lazier. In the morning I was my own housewife and was cleaning my room and doing the laundry. Then I also found out that I don't really have any photos of the apartment to show you. So then I became a photographer, of course after being sure of the cleanliness of the room, and took some photo...

This was more or less a lazy day and I haven't really been anywhere special. So I will try to keep it short. First of all I slept pretty long today; I didn't sleep very much during the trip. After that I unpacked my stuff and ate breakfast. All not very interesting. I was also looking for other places to travel to, because I would like to see more of the country. The problem that I have is that I have classes six days a week, so there is not much time for tr...

Qingdao is a super touristic place because it is next to the beach; it has a beer museum and good and cheap local sea food. What best describes our stay is Beach, Busy, Boulevard, Beer, Bite and Bus. Beach. After breakfast we went to see the beach and the yellow sea. Close to the city center, about an hour walking from our hostel, are a few beaches. One of the beaches also has a small Chinese house/pavilion on an island which is accessible via a bridge, see p...

Next stop: Qingdao. Also here we had problems finding a place to sleep, but we got free dinner because we drank a beer with some local people. In the morning we left the city of Qufu to go (with a change of trains in Jinan) to Qingdao. Qingdao is a rather big city, about 6 million inhabitants, in the same province as Jinan, the Shandong province. It is located near the yellow sea in the east of China. It took us about two-and-a-half hours to get there from Ji...

My first actual trip within China starts today, a three-day trip with Roman and Victoria. The first stop will be in Qufu, the temple of Confucius to be more precise. At 6:00 a.m. my alarm was ringing and it was time to eat breakfast and to pack my stuff for this trip. About an hour later I was on my way together with Roman and Victoria, my classmates. First up, a one-hour bus ride to the train station in Jinan from where the train is leaving to Qufu. At the t...