Relatives
Often in the weekends, we visit my father or mothers siblings' homes or other relatives. Here in China, even how small one's house can be, they always find room for hosting someone.
Last weekend we visited my father's bigbrother. We all had lunch round their small table and on the coach, or low chairs. We ate crab and the rests of the crab you just put on the table, you always do that with fishbones too and meatbones - the table manners here are something else, often not in the better way.
Me and my sister
Last weekend we visited my father's bigbrother. We all had lunch round their small table and on the coach, or low chairs. We ate crab and the rests of the crab you just put on the table, you always do that with fishbones too and meatbones - the table manners here are something else, often not in the better way.
Me and my sister
Swedish visit
A month ago, my school had such an intresting visit - a school from Sweden, from Stockholm, from a place very near to where I live and go to school.
I was so happy to meet some people from my "own" country again but I noticed that I almost got a culture shock from meeting them, I am feeling really like China is a big part of me and that I actually was hosting them in a country I belong to.
Anyhow, this school, Rosstensta, have an exchange with my school and they usually go visit them once a year, and my chinese school have also been on a visit to Sweden.
I shared with them all the differences I have discovered between the swedish school and chinese school, there were some students there who was writting a project about that. We were together all day, went to visit a restaurant and the famous tempel here in Changzhou, which is placed in Hong Mei park.
I will keep contact with the swedish school and visit them when I am back in Sweden, hopefully I can join them and visit my chinese school next time they are going!
I was so happy to meet some people from my "own" country again but I noticed that I almost got a culture shock from meeting them, I am feeling really like China is a big part of me and that I actually was hosting them in a country I belong to.
Anyhow, this school, Rosstensta, have an exchange with my school and they usually go visit them once a year, and my chinese school have also been on a visit to Sweden.
I shared with them all the differences I have discovered between the swedish school and chinese school, there were some students there who was writting a project about that. We were together all day, went to visit a restaurant and the famous tempel here in Changzhou, which is placed in Hong Mei park.
I will keep contact with the swedish school and visit them when I am back in Sweden, hopefully I can join them and visit my chinese school next time they are going!
My school, welcoming Sweden!
A few of the swedish teachers and students
The tempel in Hong Mei Gong Yuan
Exercise (锻炼身体)c
Here in China a lot of people often go out and do exercise in groups or just stand on the street doing their own exercise - like this old woman I once saw. She did in with a sword - she was so cute I had to make a video of her!
Victor's birthday
Today it was Victor's birthday, so we went after school to eat dinner together - him, me, Omid and Cordelia!
This saturday we celebrated his birthday for real at his house, his parents cooked a huge dinner and served us cake. Here in China, they never bake the cake, instead they always buy a cake from the same cake place. Most chinese househoulds doesn't own an oven, so it is difficult for me to make them western food since I am used to use the oven a lot.
This saturday we celebrated his birthday for real at his house, his parents cooked a huge dinner and served us cake. Here in China, they never bake the cake, instead they always buy a cake from the same cake place. Most chinese househoulds doesn't own an oven, so it is difficult for me to make them western food since I am used to use the oven a lot.
Saturday night!
Today at the biljard place, happy birthday Victor!
Today at the biljard place, happy birthday Victor!
In school
Hi, I have self study lesson right now (自习）. Have like music lesson after that when I learn How to play an instrument , a chinese flute which you can see on the pictures.
Writing a little chinese now so you can see How that is improving, it is very difficult but I like it!
现在我在学校的图书馆上自习课。今天是我的留学生朋友的生日，生日快乐胜利!
School trip
Spend the whole day with my classmates and did different things, rollercoasters and 4d movie. It was kind of fun, nice to have some time to spend with my classmates because they are usually so busy with studying...
And, at this amusement park, people stared a lot. Because I look different here people often stare at me and sometimes talk to me, or take pictures. And yesterday I took several pictures, it is so much fun! Everyone is so nice and think it is so exotic to see an foreigner and for me it is just positive, I get reminded of that I am on my exchange year and that this is something different.
Me and my classmates!
Classmates!
My whole class - do you see me?
Some of the pictures I took with people haha .
Looks so incredible wrong haha...
晚饭
Eating dumplings and other with friends and family !
The autumn school uniform
So now when it's getting colder here, really cold, we change from the summer uniform to the autumn uniform. We only wear it on mondays and I couldn't be happier for it's not really the most good looking one. My pants are way too long, big and wide, but everyone looks the same so I shouldn't be so uncomfortable in it...Anyway, happy that the school give me the uniform and that I don't need to pay for it, my school is taking so good care of me! Really happy.
Look so miserable, first day with the uniform haha....
Look so miserable, first day with the uniform haha....
Changing again
I started to write in swedish instead of english but now I will change back, no reason why. Or yes, but anyway.
Today it's wednesday, I just arrived home from school, it is around six o`clock in the evening here. Today I hade almost self-study the whole afternoon, except for my special chinese lessons, because all the students now are practising for the midterm exam which is next tuesday. It's apperently very important (but everything they do here is important, even the everyday homework) and now they litteraly do nothing else in their free time but studying. Maybe some weekends they can at least have a few hours of fun, but this weekend I don't think I will meet my chinese friends at all haha...
They study so hard here, and so much. It's way too much, but I will explain more about that in another post, otherwise this will be too long.
Today it's wednesday, I just arrived home from school, it is around six o`clock in the evening here. Today I hade almost self-study the whole afternoon, except for my special chinese lessons, because all the students now are practising for the midterm exam which is next tuesday. It's apperently very important (but everything they do here is important, even the everyday homework) and now they litteraly do nothing else in their free time but studying. Maybe some weekends they can at least have a few hours of fun, but this weekend I don't think I will meet my chinese friends at all haha...
They study so hard here, and so much. It's way too much, but I will explain more about that in another post, otherwise this will be too long.
Konstiga grejer
De flesta undrar om jag har ätit några konstiga grejer och maträtter här borta och det gör jag väl.
Som jag nämnt innan har det varit svan, kycklinghjärta, kycklingfötter etc. Nu är det även grishjärta och förlåt mig för detta vissa personer, men hund har jag också provat. Och det är precis vad det här året handlar om att prova nya saker, bli en del av kulturen. Handlar ju absolut inte bara om mat, menar i princip allting!
Hund...
Grishjärta
Som jag nämnt innan har det varit svan, kycklinghjärta, kycklingfötter etc. Nu är det även grishjärta och förlåt mig för detta vissa personer, men hund har jag också provat. Och det är precis vad det här året handlar om att prova nya saker, bli en del av kulturen. Handlar ju absolut inte bara om mat, menar i princip allting!
Hund...
Grishjärta
Byter om
Okej, har blivit för lat för att skriva på engelska plus att jag inte litar på min engelska längre här borta - vågar inte lyssna på kinesernas engelska lektioner för jag märker att lärarna ibland säger fel.
Min blogg uppdateras dåligt men det är för jag har så otrolígt fullt i veckorna och helgen oftast också. Men ska bli lite bättre nu.
Något jag kan berätta om denna natt. Drömde samma dröm om och om igen hela natten, mardrömmar. Mardrömmar att jag har 3 månader kvar i Kina och helt plötsligt var jag redan hemma. Men sen vaknar jag och är fortfarande kvar här,och lättnar - jag har fortfarande 8 underbara månader kvar.
Jag älskar mitt utbytesår så otroligt mycket och det här är verkligen min vardag nu. Självklart är det massa grejer som jag stör mig på här borta, men jag är van. Det är som mitt vanliga liv, tanken på något annat känns konstigt.
Nu ska jag njuta av min söndag här med både studier och shoppa med min kinesiska kompis.
Min blogg uppdateras dåligt men det är för jag har så otrolígt fullt i veckorna och helgen oftast också. Men ska bli lite bättre nu.
Något jag kan berätta om denna natt. Drömde samma dröm om och om igen hela natten, mardrömmar. Mardrömmar att jag har 3 månader kvar i Kina och helt plötsligt var jag redan hemma. Men sen vaknar jag och är fortfarande kvar här,och lättnar - jag har fortfarande 8 underbara månader kvar.
Jag älskar mitt utbytesår så otroligt mycket och det här är verkligen min vardag nu. Självklart är det massa grejer som jag stör mig på här borta, men jag är van. Det är som mitt vanliga liv, tanken på något annat känns konstigt.
Nu ska jag njuta av min söndag här med både studier och shoppa med min kinesiska kompis.
School life
I'm at school, enjoying my long lunchbreak, later me and Omid have are special afternoon classes.
My school is really big! We have a canteen where you can choose between many different dishes and you pay like 6 yuan for a normal portion. If you don't like the food that's served in the canteen you can go to the supermarket where you can buy other hot food, noodles, something to drink , cookies ANYTHING. The school provides me and Omid with 200 yuan per month to buy food with, while the other chinese students have to pay themselves. I love my school, they are so good to me.
On the pictures you can also see me in my summer school uniform, ugly...and now we have the autumn uniform instead which is so much more ugly. The good thing is that we only need to wear it on mondays!
I'm going to go study chinese now , 再见
