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Weather of today:
- Day: 35 degrees and sunny.
- Night: 22 degrees.
Sentence of today:
Thank you for picking me up in the airport:
谢谢您来机场接我! xiè xiè nín lái jīchǎng jiē wǒ!
Todays - Good to know:
Food has great significance in Chinese culture. If you're staying in a Chinese home or have just been invited to share a meal, the surest way to gladden the hearts of your hosts is to heartily express your appreciation of their culinary powers. A handy phrase: The food was delicious!真好吃! Zhēn hǎochī!
Todays tip:
Always remember to carry toilet paper with you all time! Trust me, it's not funny to figure out, after you made your pupuh, that the public toilet is out off paper.
Dish of today:
Dumplings: 饺子jiǎozi
Dumplings are cooked balls of dough. They are based on flour, potatoes or bread, and may include meat, fish, vegetables, or sweets. They may be cooked by boiling, steaming, simmering, frying, or baking. They may have a filling, or there may be other ingredients mixed into the dough. ( Very yummy! J )
Todays Historical fact:
The epic sweep of China's history paints a perhaps deceiving impression of long epochs of peace occasionally convulsed by break-up, internecine division or external attack. Yet China has, for much of its history, been in conflict either internally or with outsiders. Although China's size and shape has also continuously changed - from tiny beginnings by the Yellow River to the subcontinent of today - an uninterrupted thread of history runs from its earliest roots to the full flowering of Chinese civilisation. Powerful links connect the Chinese of today with their ancestors 5000 or 6000 years ago, creating the longest-lasting civilisation on earth.
(Lonely planet - China)
Book of today:
Mao - The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.
"Devastating…Awesome…Mesmerising… The most powerful, compelling and revealing political biography of modern times…
Few books are destined to change history, but this on will"
(George Walden, Daily Mail)
My day:
The time is now 11 pm, and everyone is in bed. I have had a really awesome day.
Departed from Copenhagen Airport 13.25, had a stopover in Helsinki and then arrived in Beijing 6.55 local time. It took around 10 hours. I flew with Finnair, which I really can recommend to others. It was cheap and the flight was nice, with your own screen in the seat in front of you, where you could choose movies, series, games, music and so on. Pretty cool I think. Haven't seen that before.
There was a moment where the plane started to shake really heavenly, really heavy turbulent, and I was freaking out a little, (I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die!) Hehe..
I was chatting with a Chinese girl and woman in the Helsinki airport, in Chinese, and I was surprise how much I understood actually, but also much I didn't understand.
When I arrived in Beijing Airport, you have to first go through pass/visa control which is pretty fast, and then take a little subway to the other side of the airport, it's a huge airport, so happy that I shouldn't walk there.
My Chinese host Mom waited for me with a sign with my name on, she is really nice. I call her You Mama, 由妈妈(You is her family name, and Mama means mom)
The family's place is a nice, big apartment, where I have my own room. Will show you some pictures later.
We went home and ate breakfast her and I, which was noodles with mushrooms and egg.
Then she drove me near to her work where JiaoJiao waited, a 19 years old Chinese girl. (Don't know if they try to hook me up with her, hehe) She was my guide for the rest of the day. We went to Lama Temple, which is Beijing's famous Buddhist temple. See pictures. And then to Confucius Temple & Imperial College.
I was really tired, and almost fell asleep in the subway back. I only slept around 3 hours in the plane. So a nice sleep for two hours before dinner was just what I needed. When I woke up, Deng Baba(邓爸爸) was home. He is what I would call a typical Chinese man, relaxed, like drinking beer, smoking, and like playing games. The neighbours joined us. Which is a Waipo, grandma, daughter with husband and child, a girl around 5, she is soo cute, and shy. They are all really nice to me and curious and asking about how things are in Denmark. There English level is quite good compared to other Chinese people in general, but most of the conversations are in Chinese and I would say I get around. Todays dinner was Dumplings, yummy! 我很喜欢!
I brought the family gifts from Denmark, two Royal Copenhagen teacups, A plate with the little mermaid on and a packet of Danish chocolate. I think they really liked it.
My evening ended up at the local hairdresser, because I earlier told "You Mama" that I needed a haircut, so off we went. Funny experience, in China its mostly males who's a hairdresser, which is opposite Denmark, where it's typical girls or fags. He did a quite good job I think.
Now is bed time! Goodnight!J
Ps: I miss you Vince!
- comments
Oscar Apparently you need to have a toilet paper with you also in Paris :) Keep on writing, seems to be interesting. Btw, probably 99% of the airlines have individual entertainment system on their long haul flights.
Vince Sounds pretty cool baby!! :) But dont copy so much from wikipedia please *hehe Miss you a lot! <3 But most of all... ENJOY IT!!
Mads N Dumblings! Yum Yum! :)
Majbritt Pettersson Hej Skat! Lyder super alt sammen. Fortsat en dejlig tid derovre. Og take care! Møs Mor
Martin K Hvor cool at få den første blog fra dig. Glæder mig til at høre meget mere om din spændende tur og følge dig den tid du er i Kina.