I just came back from my oral exam — Mandarin Chinese — a few minutes ago and after my teacher told me that I have to keep on learning Chinese, I feel like writing something ^^..

Last week we made a one day trip to Shenzhen (China) to vistit Moritz’s “relatives”. Actually, we only met Lyn (although we also saw her twin sister — for nearly a minute) and to let the others know, who Lyn is: She is the niece of the wife of the cousin of the mum of Moritz….Everybody still with me?
We had a nice day in Shenzhen (only one and a half hour from UST with the MTR). We had hot pot with Lyn and her friend for lunch. Hot pot is traditional Chinese, there you have a big pot with boiling water where you can cook meat and vegetables while you’re eating. (There’re also Vietnamese, Japanese and other versions.) After that we went to “The Window of the World” — kind of theme park where you can see miniature models of the most famous sights of the world, for example the Eiffel Tour, the Statue of Liberty and so on. There’s a really nice photo album, which you can see here.

There’re also other albums, I want to transfer all my pictures to picasa, because I like it more than flickr (it also has the feature to put down landmarks so that the viewers can see where the picture was taken). But I still don’t have enough time and the “AuslandsBAföG” wants something, they’re so annoying.

Back to Shenzhen: In the evening Lyn’s friend cooked us a Beijing typical meal — Beijing forever!! And we had a nice talk with her. It was so cute to see that she lost her fear to speak English during the day and then she got pretty good, although she didn’t believe us when we told her.
Although it was not the typical Shenzhen trip (with spa and lot’s of fake VL handbags) we had a really nice day and we hope to see Lyn again soon — maybe in Germany ;)

For my time in Japan, I’ll try to update the blog everyday or at least every two days.
The countdown is running, 2 days until departure :D

Anh Thu