day 72: The love of money [Report] 72 days in the Chinese exile, and I enjoy it still. 72 days, that is 2 months and 11 days, or just over 10 weeks. I wrote at the time not only blog, but also constantly wear a small little notebook around with me in which I write all sorts of things into it and draw or write me inside and let stand. And I calculate every night - in typical German precision and conscientiousness Sion - how much money I've spent on that day. Yesterday, for example, the 15.1 yuan (that's € 1.59), for which I am a big portion 宫爆鸡丁 炒饭 (
gōngbàoīdīng chǎofàn
= fried rice with chicken, vegetables and peanuts), a basket Baozi ( Baozi , we remember) and got a medium cup 菠萝 奶昔 (
Boluo nǎixí = pineapple milk shake). In Germany, the same probably about 8 times would have cost in any event at least 10 €.
Currently, the yuan falls quite rapidly. While at my arrival 1 € corresponded still 8.6 ¥, now there are 9.5 yen. For simplicity, I always expect a conversion rate of 1:10, there is one very close to it. I think in a few weeks, the price actually are correct. In the picture above there are 183.7 Yuan, that is only slightly more than 19 €. So much money I'm just in my pocket and that might even extend for several days.
Almost everything here is much cheaper than here at home in Germany. All, of course the food , which is almost always super tasty and delicious. In the Mensa you get for the equivalent of about 50 cents a legally acceptable (unfortunately mostly already cold) food that you can also customize your own. Always with rice. Away you get such a delicious basket of Baozi for 40 cents, a full plate with fried rice and vegetables and meat for about 50 to 70 cents, depending on where one is (s) t. At McDonald's
(麦当劳,
Máidāngláo
) you get a menu with Big Mac, fries and 'precious drink for just under 2.50 Euronen. And you can eat 6 to 8 people and paid a total fire pot at the end of something together for more than 10 € all. In short, a meal is seldom has more than one €.
What is the candy and snacks with ? Answer: the same way. A packet of biscuits cost about 30 cents, the famous Oreo cookies (the black with cream) but expensive 60 cents
(see picture left)
. There are also delicious local things, such as sunflower seeds, which cost almost nothing, or this slightly spicy chips left in the picture for 20 cents. I estimate that in Germany would probably cost around 80 cents, so four times. There are also expensive cookies, for example, 80 Cent, but they are also very tasty. I buy me out of avarice only every couple of weeks. Nuts's here, incidentally, for example, cashew nuts and peanuts, But their prices are comparable with the German.
are fruit 's too, and it strikes me as cheap, since I never buy fruit in Germany, I'm just no comparison. I like to cough up cantaloupe and honeydew melon for a quarter you have to cut more than 50 cents. Will you have time to consider whether this is right or not. Two liters of orange juice (more than 15% fruit juice which unfortunately never) costs 70 cents.
have books
I also bought some, and their prices are well below the German. The green little handy dictionary German-Chinese, Chinese-German that we use costs in Germany, for example, almost here € 3. In Germany 10, I think. I bought two minority language dictionaries, one Chinese-
Jingpho for 3 € and one Chinese-Hmong
for 2 €. The book
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (2 nd
Edition)
by Lyle Campbell, you get on Amazon (Germany) for 23,99 €, costs in the book shop around the corner 39 ¥ (ie, 4 €) and is still in English, only the cover and the preface is in Chinese. The linguistics book that has borrowed with Huang Jin-ASJP for my research costs, also less than 3 €. I will for sure before I go home, nor my needs cover of dictionaries and linguistics books! Qinghua bookstore down the street has quite a linguistics department in English and German, all dirt cheap and there really is to find the most important of optimality theory of Chomsky and historical linguistics phonetics (Ladefoged) and applied translation studies. And all the books cost € 3-5. A dream!
also commodities are very cheap, and electronics partly also, unfortunately, because of course the quality is not so hot. I recently got a pack of Fine Liner (10 + 10 refills) for under 2 € bought in Germany, a pen costs so much; at approximately the same quality. On the street you can be a plastic film
professionally make all kinds of displays, even under a €. Slippers or flip-flops: a €; Map: 50 Cent, the temple entrance fee: 60 cents, a bus ride: 10 cents (!!!); a night karaoke at 8 persons 2 to 3 € per person, using one machine: 30 or . 40 cents, one can remove camera: 17 € 3-month warranty and so on ...
My new camera that I recently purchased with the help Haiyan cost, but in 1860 Yuan, or about 190 euros, a reasonable price and as in Germany. Incidentally, it is
a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX68
(black), Japanese product with German lens, am totally happy with it. The pictures are beautiful. Even computers and stuff here already cost more then the same as at home. Software like Windows 7 and Office 2010, or games you get here, but they are all pirated and therefore cost (almost) nüscht. Of these, I'd rather leave the fingers, Amila had so recently problems. There
Expensive things here but chocolate is very expensive, costs more than in Germany or as much. Similarly, shampoo and other personal care products (why?). What is also very expensive, is
Pizza Hut (必胜客, Bìshèngkè ): a small pizza costs € there around 7! Which Chinese can afford that?
Daily expenses:
How much are you so in about, per day or week? Unfortunately, I do not know how much they usually consumed in Germany to life. My scholarship pays my tuition fees and living expenses here in the dorm. I also get 1,400 yuan a month, so about 150 €. I know that this would in Germany (where I also do not Büren living and tuition to pay) do not reach back and front. How much do I have so far spent here?
Excluding Camera (1860 Yuan), the application for HSK (250 yuan), the extension of the visa (400 yuan) and the medical examination (326 yuan), which I do not want to count as real were my expenses over the past 72 days just spent 3227.8 yuan - that's per week and per day 44.8 313.8 Yuan Yuan. So about 5 € per day and per week just around 35 €, per month or almost exactly the 1400 yuan that I get from Konfuzius-Institut/Hanban. Kalkuloren very well, all! When I peeled the top expenditure for the camera and then
Co.
with Anticipated yet, I am the way, to almost double, that is 84.2 yuan per day (589.5 Yuan per week, about 2600 yuan per month). That would be something more.
A larger issue, I still plan for the near future: the acquisition of a Chinese mobile phones. I'm not sure if I should get a cheap for 40 €, or a real (unadulterated) SmartPhone ...