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Weather of today:
- Day: 27 degrees and cloudy
- Night 22 degrees
Sentence of today:
Do we have to pay?
要买票吗?
Today's - Good to know:
Bicycles are an excellent method for getting around Chinese cities or patrolling tourist sites. In a country with more than 300 million bikes some organisations is required to prevent cycle chaos. In cities you'll be required to park your bike at a bicycle parking lot knows as a cúnchēchù存车处 overseen by an attendant.
Today's tip:
Be careful about leaving your things unnoticed. Both families have explained me carefully I should me careful about my bag, even when you have on your back.
Dish of today:
Stir fried mackerel and fish balls.
Today's Historical fact:
As with most fractious features of Chinese society, Beijing goes to superhuman lengths to present China's ethnic relations as 'harmonious'. Newspapers, TV reports museum exhibitions and ethnic performances tirelessly depict tribes of joyful minorities. It is part if the deintellectualisation of sensitive issues which bashes the square peg if China's ethnic relations into a seemingly round hole.
The chemistry between China's ethnic minorities and the Han majority (who wield the political and often the business power) is certainly more complex than 'harmonious'. Like an occasionally unhappy marriage, composure can be maintained on the outside, with an effort of will. When ethnic relations swiftly unravel - with occasionally shocking violence - Beijing prefers to publicly blame 'outside forces' instead of addressing domestic causes. One of the responses to the Tibet disturbances of 2008 and the vicious Ürümqi riots of 2009 was to flood the areas with troops. Troops tent to stay in place, so they become part of the long-term stick-rather-than-carrot solution. Ürümqi also found itself without internet access for 10 months, a sign of Beijing's distrust of access to electronic information.
My day:
Today I promised to hang out with DaSheng. Funny kid, but I take my previously words back, he's English is poor. I have to speak really slowly before he understands me and often twice, that's not a problem at all. But he often speaks out of context, and when his English isn't the best, it's really difficult to understand him. But we get along really well, and I think its cool for him to hang out with me. First we went to Momi café, he really wanted to go there, and I wanted to use the Wifi, so completely fine with me (if it works, seems to be too many users) After spending an hour or so, we took a cab to Bangchuidao Beach. The beach belongs to the area called Bangchuidao Jingqu, and it's where the Chinese President goes for holiday, so there was an entrance fee of 20 Yuan. Certainly a beautiful area, and the beach were nice! This time it was actually what I would call a real beach, and it wasn't destroyed by an overwhelm of Chinese tourist. Wang Qi told me later it's mostly only the locals going to that beach. It was really nice laying there, relaxing and just enjoying the sun. DaSheng and I took turns jumping in the water, so there was at least one to watch over our things. The water temperature was around 22 degrees. Warm for me, compared to 18 in Denmark.
When we got home we watched Transformers 3, before dinner was served. Dinner was nice as always. We quickly have to go after dinner, because DaSheng's dad was waiting for us at the local Cinema. Nice to finely meet him. He is a very calm and gentle man. DaSheng and I were making paper () with the Cinema's flyers to kill the time before the movie, was quite fun, my one won! Hehe. The movie we saw was 搜索(国语)means something with search. There wasn't any English subtitles this time, so didn't understand anything. A little bit boring, but at least I practiced listening to Chinese. Wang Qi tried to explain me afterwards what the movie was about. They drove me home, and said I should come to their place tomorrow morning for breakfast at 6.30 am. Way to early! So I should probably go to bed.
Goodnight!
Ps: I miss you more than ever!
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