To compensate for the holiday we should have had classes today, should have had, and I never would have thought that I would find Dutch souvenirs in a shop in China. It is Sunday today but that doesn't matter for the Chinese students. Student life goes on 24/7 over here. I don't mean the Western student life, but Chinese people study as much as they can. Lately I was advised to go to the library early in the morning, otherwise it will be full. And they meant ...

The first stage of the Qilu UT marathon started with a head-start for me and a lot of eating. Also, the coach already gave up before the second half of this stage. Because of the holiday last week, classes will start again today, followed by tomorrow and then we continue with our normal schedule. So today we thought we had to be at the university at 8 a.m., but when we got to the classroom there were already a lot of Chinese students in the room and that was d...

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...