Month of december. First month of real winter.
Even if we don't have any snow here (yet?) you can really feel that it's winter here more than anywhere else. Because here, the coldness follows you wherever you go. It is cold everywhere, except for maybe starbucks.

 

The problem here is that they don't have any heating system that works inside the house and the walls aren't that good isolated either.
Some rooms might have kongtiao/热空调 (like air conditioner which makes hot air) but it's on very few places. My home doesn't have any at all, or does not use it anyway. In school the classrooms it is the same, the school is so tight-fisted and only use it some of the teachers office. And what makes it worst is that in the classrooms they also leave the windows open...

This air condition is too expensive, that's why people not use it. But they should really invest in better build buildings and some better heat system which is not as expensive and much more convinient than AC.

I now sit in my room, wearing three shirts and two par of trousers and when I breath it comes smoke from my mouth. The winter here is much worse than Sweden, because you can't escape the cold....brr.

 

Today all my thoughts go to an exchange student in my city whom lost his father and will return to his home country.

This is really a fear you meet being away from your home and family, that someone will pass away. I can't imagine the feeling and I hope I'll never have too. But today someone I knew had to meet that fear. And I am so sorry for his loss.

 

Take care of yourselves and you family out there. They are the most precious thing you have.

This saturday I spend time with my sister and two of her classmates!

Every saturday, they have to go to school and watch a movie and after they have special clubs such as dancing, handwork, speach class, math club etc. I don't go to it but every other student in gao 1 (grade 1) have to go, every saturday. And after that they usually spend the rest of their weekend doing homework - typical chinese student's life.

However, this saturday I could actually spend time with my two chinese friends and my little sister. We first went to eat hotpot which is a special chinese dish were you have a big pot in the middle, often one part that is very hot and the other part not as hot. It's boiling water with some oil in it and you put different kinds of food in it and wait til it's cooked. Meat, vegetables, fish, mushrooms - it is delicous! 
After that we watch a movie at my friends house - but she went away right during the movie to do homework, chinese students and their studies, crazy...,