My sweet blog, how could I have neglected you! Three weeks ago Giorgos came to visit me and after that I was pretty busy. In the meantime many things have happened, and then again nothing really important. When a professor asked me "so how is your life" and then with a friendly smile adding "a bit boring" I agreed. But on the other hand, my uneventful life in Chinese is still very exotic and exciting. In the past 20 days I have eaten "the best duck" in Beijing (thanks to Giorgos' best guide book!), experienced Chinese style massage (without the sex..), played a hug 1-2-3 people game and spoke to a Norwegian nut about his UFO experiences (shamefully),...
I had many interesting conversations with Giorgos. Unfortunatelly, due to work, I didn't do as many things as I wanted to with him. Many of our conversations had to do with the Chinese. But I am not much wiser than him on the matter. What I claimed though is that there is often misunderstanding about many things. A tourist might think there is something fishy about someone friendly coming up to you at tiananmen asking if you are american.
Last night I met with a Greek woman from the embassy's cultural section. She has lived here six years. She very often repeated "no matter what you have heard before..". And at some point she said Chinese might approach you at tiananmen to practice their english and make friends! To be honest, I wish it was more like that everywhere, since I rarely go to tiananmen!
