So some trivial stuff has happened and some intensely non-trivial stuff also has happened. I’ve been hanging out with a lot of new people and have been settling in in my new apartment. I bought two sideboards matching the horrid/awesome eighties couches that came with the place. They’re really comfortable compared to most of the furniture at home in Sweden. Here mostly everything that’s should be soft is hard. My mattress for example is hard like a rock. I bought ergonomically not so incorrect pillows to compensate and it works pretty good. I’m sleeping some 9-10 hours every night almost until noon since I don’t plan anything before 14:00 most days.
Tomorrow is the first day of the moon festival and all the other students have the next week off. This means that most people will be traveling around in China, and so will I. I’ll probably stick to exploring Yunnan (the province where Kunming is located) because it has enough history and interesting environments to last for an expedition far longer than a week. It would be great if I could find someone with a car and a Chinese drivers license since I love road trips but I think that’s almost impossible. You who are interested in where I’ll be going can google “yunnan stone forest” and “tiger leaping gorge”. I also want to visit some minority villages around the province to see how it is and sample their food. When the Han (the dominant ethnicity of China) spread out they pushed the other peoples down south and west towards Yunnan. The result is that theere are many different kinds of ethnicities here and they all have a pretty interesting story.
Something more serious also happened. My friend Susanne came from Sweden to be my partner in business. Unfortunately things didn’t work out smoothly between us and we ended up in a heated argument with our cooperation torn to shreds. We have no contact at the moment and I believe that to be good for us both. I think we both have pretty much the same perspective on the situation and here is mine: I respect her for her good qualities but discovered that the bad ones made us incompatible as business partners and I’m glad this ended before any serious damage was done. Even if we would have been able to patch things up this time it would have happened at a later date, possibly with a lot more at stake. Maybe we can be friends some day but that is out of the question right now.
Micke.. Varför svarar du inte på mina meddelanden? Iaf.. Saknar dig och hoppas du har det bra i Kina-land. Kram