Life Stories

Finally! After a lot of tweaking with my Internet options and thanks to some customized tools I finally got Facebook (and all other sites) to work.

My first experience with Shanghai was  the traffic here… its CRAZY! They don’t care if there is a green light or a red light, they just drive. Also there is so much  population / smog here, now I really know why people wear mask all the time.

The room I sleep in is very clean and we even good a maid who insisted to carry my stuff, not used to it but hey you won’t hear me complaint.

After we settled down, we went to a nice restaurant were we eat some nice Chinese food! When I went for a walk in the restaurant I discovered a room where they held a lot of animals; turtles, little sharks, snakes, lobsters, baracudas and so on. The waiter told me that the snakes are delicious (maybe I should try it one of these days).

Okay, so right now we have to go to the welcome ceremony. I’ll try to update as much as possible, still need to figure out to get this Internet running faster and smoother (when I upload photos and videos).

Until then, Záijián!

Yannick

你好!

It has been a while since I updated my blog, so many great things are happening in my life and I am enjoying it all.. so much that I didn’t even update my blog (how bad)! Anyway this upcoming journey is so special for me that it made me blog again (can you imagine how special this journey is going to be?!)

Next week on the 2nd of November I’ll be going to China, the first 5 weeks I’ll be living in Shanghai and the last week I’ll be visiting Beijing. This will be with 30 of my fellow classmates since we are following the INChina program of our University. On this journey I really want to know the answers on the following questions:

• Where does that huge work ethic of Chinese people come from?
• How different is the Chinese culture (in Shanghai & Beijing) from the Dutchies?
• And is basketball in China really that big?
  (I already know I have to brush up my ‘basketball skills’!)