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Weather of today:
- Day: 28 degrees, cloudy and sunny.
- Night: 21 degrees.
Sentence of today:
My throat hurts a little bit. Can we buy some medicine against it?
我嗓子疼一点儿。可以买中国的药吗?
Today's - Good to know:
In China, it's the Public Security Bureau or PSB (gōng'ānjú 公安局) that's responsible for introducing and enforcing regulations concerning foreigners. Turn to them for mediation in disputes with hotels, restaurants or taxi drivers.
Today's tip:
When getting a taxi on the street, don't be surprised about other already sitting in the cab, you can still take it. Its quite normal specially in Dalian.
Dish of today:
Hotpot with mushrooms! :)
Today's Historical fact:
2004: The world's first commercially operating Maglev train begins scorching a trail across Shanghai's Pudong District.
My day:
Todays morning I made toast with honey, jam, and scrambled eggs. Was nice!
Today's plan was to see the Xinghai Square, and then find another beach. So packed a bag with my beach stuff, a book to read, and my computer so I could stop at a Wifi café later.
But 10 min. after I arrived Li Guannan called me and ask what I was doing, I was just walking around the square, she asked me f I wanted to go to the cinema with her, the cinema was only 10 min. way with a cap, so I said, yes, why not. I met her at the Cinema, her boyfriend had Chinese lessons this afternoon, so she took her grandma with her to see this Chinese Kong Fu movie called "The Four". Quite good movie, and luckily there was English subtitles, otherwise I would have been lost. I had a soar throat and we had to kill half an hour before the movie started, so asked Li Guannan if we could go to a pharmacy to buy something against it. I got some Chinese medicine, a packet of lozenges, tasted a bit like liquorice, should take two at the time, four times a day. It seems to work.
After the movie Li Guannan showed me around Xinghai Square, hadn't so much time to see if before. It's a really big square, with a big plane, leading out to the see. In the end of the square, there is a little amusement park, with different kind of carousels, and on the other side, a little stretch of beach. A really nice area, where you could spend some time having fun, try the different carousels or rent a pair of roller skates or maybe jump in the water.
Her Mom picked us op afterwards, heading for a Hotpot restaurant, where other family members waited, including Li Guannans boyfriend. He seems to be a very nice guy, we spoke together most of the evening, in English to be polite for the others, those who understood English. Christian is his name. He has his own new launched company; making computer software specialized in e.g. making World of Warcraft into a learning programme for school use. It seems to going well, and he got some good sponsors. Think he is a really good contact person to have in the future, he also said he had a contact in the Danish Innovation centre in Shanghai, if I was interested working there after I graduate. Will defiantly have the opportunity open. We drank several beers each, tried three different kinds. I also leaned a bit more about the whole cheering to family dinners. You are only aloud to cheer with one at the time, to show respect, you lower the class underneath the other, look at the person while drinking and then finishing it. (Luckily its really small glasses, not compared to Danish standard which normally is half a litre) The hotpot was really delicious. Think hotpot is my favourite cuisine in China. It's really tasty! This restaurants was specialized in serving mushrooms, haven't had so many different mushrooms before, and the soup for cooking in, was also a made of mushrooms. They explained several times how healthy it is to eat them. We were in total 9 people eating together; in traditionally Chinese style (round table with a glass top). Very nice family. But didn't speak so much with them, because of the lack of English on their side and lack of Chinese on mine.
After the dinner I took a cap home, took a warm shower and went to bed.
Goodnight!
Ps: I miss you Vince!
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