Archive for August, 2005
Coming to Kashgar means coming to a completely different kind of living. You are confronted there with a mixture of arabic-islamic-chinese-russian-turkey lifestyle, and I am sure, there is much more. However, life goes pretty normal there. What is really nice when you go there: People are not used that much to tourists and when you [...]
In 2004 I decided to go to Kashgar, at that time there was the myth of it being the end of the world, have a look yourself. Although preparations have been made and I was ready to go, I did not. Too many things happened in Shanghai and Beijing and time was extremely [...]
Leaving Shanghai for a destination nobody knows something about like Urumqi (乌鲁木齐) is not very common, especially not, if you have no idea that you are going there. My fellow friend Magdalena came to China to visit me in Shanghai, not expecting that I had completely different plans with her: there was [...]
Going back to loneliness is the worst thing that can happen to you after you have had a really social week…
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…it is much better than spending your time here with people from your homecountry and their imported homecountry-like thinking.
When I came to Shanghai, I was confronted with an environment that was completely neutral. Nobody knew me, nobody saw me before. As I described earlier, it was a good feeling and I could start a new life here. Of course, as time went by, I got to know more and more people – and [...]
I will not judge what happened, because I do not understand Chinese culture that well, but for all the other cultures I know, this would be a shame for somebody to do. What happened?
Before I left Shaoxing, I talked to Jane about having dinner together in Shanghai. Both of us liked guo tie, so there [...]
Since yesterday, I again know what good talking really is. I talked to four friends and as it is normal during talking, with time you start to focus on one person and communicate with this person. I was talking for hours with them and in the end we even started to talk about talking. Especially [...]
Austria is a very small country with a population of just about 8.5 million people. However, there is no place in this world, you cannot find Austrians somewhere. I do not know why and how, but until now, everywhere I went to, I found Austrians, who were established in this region already. The same thing [...]
I went to Starbucks in Shanghai and although I do not like Starbucks’ coffee policy (everywhere in the world) and although I do not like their attitude on alleging themselves as the only real coffee makers with the only real taste (something like the reference of coffee), I have to admit that [...]
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