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.

 

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!

So today it is 2 moths since I said goodbye to my friends and family in Sweden an started my new life here in China. By this time, my chinese has improved a lot, every week I am improving but I am not very good but I though I would show you a little how it is.
In the video below I am telling you my daily life here in China, but I guess you will listen and understand so I don't have to write what I am saying. Enjoy haha..

I have done a lot of dangerous things here in China, like making videos during classes to show you all these different things I face here. This is one of the things:
     Here in China the teacher has a lot of respect. The teacher always beging the lesson after the bell rings with saying "Lesson starts" and one student in the class screams out "STAND UP" and everyone stands up. Then the teachers says "nimen hao" which means "hello to you" and we answer "Laoshi hao" which means "hello teacher" and the teacher tells us to sit down.
     In the lessons the teacher stands and talk the whole time, and throws out questions to the different students who has to stand up when they are asked and they can't sit down until the teacher says they are allowed to. And you also stands up when the lesson is finished, but some teachers are more chill with that then others - but in the begining of the lessons, you always have to stand up and bow.
     Everytime you meet them in the corridor you say "Laoshi hao"  when I in Sweden would greet the teacher as anyone else and just say hello. But here the title teacher is something very good and important not to miss out on.

This is how it looks when the class starts:

DAILY RUTIN

5.30 - Get up and put on the military clothes that really smelled bad and where 5 sizes too big.
6.00 - The teacher blew the wistle and we all had to run down and stand in our lines, 2 for the girls and 2 for the boys. Now we had some morning training, maybe running or just the military training which was to walk from one place to another over and over again, left right left - left right left.
7.15 - Breakfast. And then clean the room if very clean, otherwise you would be punished.
8.00 -  Once again someone blows the whistle and now the exercise before lunch lasted for 3 & a half hour.
11.30 - Lunch. And a break to sleep on and the military teachers would come to our room to see how tidy our room was.
2.30 PM - Afternoon exercise.
6.00 PM: Dinner
6.45 PM - Night lessons. Now you sit for the following hour on a small chair without a support for the back and still have to sit straight. If it's hard for the chinese student, imagine me who sits there almost falling asleep since I can't understand what the teachers we're saying.
8.OO PM - Take a shower, get ready for bed, practice a performance for the last day.
9.30 - The teachers blow a whistle and if they see a light in one room, they will turn the power off.

That's what my days looked like for the six days I spent at the military camp. The training was really boring and you got really tired - not because it was exhausting physicaly, it was just so boring that it felt like you were dying. We practice the same walking over and over again, all these hours every day. We turned right , turned left, walked a few metres. Stopped. Screamed out number. Went down on our knees. Stand up. Turn right. Over and over again. A lot of people passed out by the heat, at least one person a day. It was kind of terrible but they were soon back on their feet again - Chinese people are really good to get back on their feet quickly, in their education system they have no time to be sick if they don't wanna get stuck with a lot of homework.
The meals we're terrible. The food and the way of eating, both were just not good. You had to wait for the teacher who told everyone what to do, you weren't even aloud to fix your chair if he didn't told you too. We were over six hundred student in one room who had to sit at the exact same time and keep quite if we wanted to eat. On the last day we had to stand and sit 15 times before we were alowed to speak - the military teachers were so extremly strict.

On the last day we had a party and everyone performed - it was such a great finishing of a fantastic week! And yes, from what I've told you this week must seem terrible - but no. It was one of the most weirdest things I've ever experiences and I had so much fun. I got to know so many people and got really close to my classmates which I am so thankful for, they are such great friends and we had tons of fun at the camp!

AND, the military teachers we're so handsome!