Category Archives: Life

Hao Yun (郝云) Concert

While walk­ing through the store, I noticed the music they were play­ing was very nice. We found out it was the new album of Hao Yun (郝云), and more­over, he was com­ing for a pro­mo­tion con­cert that same after­noon! We imme­di­ately bought the album to have it auto­graphed later :-)

DVDs in China

As any­one knows, DVDs are dirt-cheap in China (as they should be) While inspect­ing the back of the sleeve for the movie After Shock I noticed some incor­rect infor­ma­tion though… Can you spot it?

Climbing a Mountain

Last week­end we went out with some fam­ily and friends to climb a moun­tain and stay at a farm. Now, I’m sure Bail­ixia used to be a farm­ing town, and there used to be a farm house on the place where we stayed, but today it’s more of a party-town and the place where we stayed is more of a coun­try­side hotel.

Taking a hike

Last week, because of the dragon-boat fes­ti­val, we went out of Bei­jing with the fam­ily to catch some fresh air. After get­ting up early in the morn­ing, we took an approx. hour and a half drive into the coun­try­side south north of Bei­jing, where we met up with some more rel­a­tives and friends. After nav­i­gat­ing nar­row

It has been a while.

Our new life in China is slowly tak­ing shape. Since the last post we have moved to our own apart­ment, Yuan has started her new job and we are slowly start­ing to get used to the daily rou­tine. Our new apart­ment is located in Tongzhou, a new dis­trict of Bei­jing (since 1997), with close to 900,000

Yesterday we lighted the fire in our new place

Yes­ter­day we lighted the fire in our new place (cooked for the first time) In the after­noon we took the bus and metro to our new place, moved a few things, and found out I’m still miss­ing some impor­tant things, which are prob­a­bly in the mail from Ger­many to China. Appar­ently I didn’t pay close enough

Staying at home

Today I’m spend­ing the day at home (well, my parents-in-law’s place, where we are stay­ing until we move to our own place) recov­er­ing from a seri­ous cold which i con­tracted some­where last week. Last Sat­ur­day I already felt a but dizzy, and yes­ter­day i devel­oped a mild fever. Today it’s get­ting bet­ter, so no need to worry! I guess it’s because of

Communication University

Today we’ve been to the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Uni­ver­sity of China and the Bei­jing 2nd Lan­guage Uni­ver­sity to have a look around and get some infor­ma­tion about my Chi­nese course later. It was a nice and warm day (about 28 degrees) that brought us by bus and metro to the uni­ver­sity cam­pus in about an hour from my

Online

I still have some fine-tuning to do, but I now have access to the whole inter­net from China ^_^ Albeit slow, but that prob­a­bly has more to do with the fact that I’m using wire­less on a slow con­nec­tion.Posted from Bei­jing, Beijing, China.

Arrived

I’m going to sleep after a very long day­Posted from Bei­jing, Beijing, China.