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My Review of the Year 2010 January
It's almost a wonder (I'm greatly exaggerating here) that I came back unharmed from the
Esperanto-meeting (JES) in Poland , where especially the way back was an adventure. I wrote two slightly polemic entries about alleged anglicisms in the German language (namely Oh mein Gott
and nicht wirklich ). February
In February I wrote – as every other blog and news website – about the
death of the Bo language , then I wrote in German about the arguably best vocabulary learning software ANKI which I still use to study Chinese and Thai vocabulary with. As every year since 1986, it was my birthday
on February 10; the same entry also tells about the purchase of my beloved netbook computer. March
Seems I visited Altenburg for a few days, with Lisa (my former girlfriend). In
this entry, though, I first wrote of my decision of going to Kunming, China, where I currently am (so it worked, whoo!). Later on I visited the Leipzig Book Fair with Lisa, where I didn't only saw the German comedian Michael Mittermeier, but also my arch enemy Bastian Sick. Bah. But I did something to improve my Chinese, too: I went to attend a Chinese course (see lesson 1
and the rest of it ), where I got the information about the scholarship from the Confucius Institute, which I immediately applied for — successfully (that's why I'm here now). April
It was
my LiveJournal's 8 th birthday , yay! And I'm already looking forward to next April 1 for more interesting statistics, as I'm writing more regularly now. This is a private entry
dedicated to myself telling my future me how to complete my studies at the University of Leipzig in summer 2012. Then the 9 ^th KEKSO meeting (Esperanto-meeting for beginners) took place in Hamburg. One day later, the university started again. ^May
I posted my
schedule for the 12 th semester [sic!]
, which includes two language courses: one in Türçe ^{, one in} Quechua . Then, unbelievable as it might sound, Lisa and I – while talking in Esperanto on the tram – for the first time ever met an Esperanto speaker by chance, that was really really mojose ! Short time later, during the WGT, someone else noticed and asked us if we were speaking Esperanto . We were also in the Wildpark together. Later, the 47 th StuTS took place in Mainz , a conference of students of Linguistics and related subjects. It was pretty cool, as usual. ^June
At the beginning of June I finally got the affirmative answer that I could go to
Kunming for a year to study Chinese, two and a half months before really going there (see August below). In this entry I then showed how Bastian Sick 's research methods are based on pure imagination and that his suggestions are better not to be trusted. This entry
then talks about three things: 1) how I recognized someone speaking Chechen on the tram; 2) the summer party at the MPI and 3) the color party at Sabine's and Ulrike's place. July
I bought the
ticket for my flight to Kunming. Later was the last day of my 12 th semester. I started my holidays with visiting Leo, Alina, Cosima and Liesa in the Rhein-Main area
of Germany — a really cool and fun four days. As the days until my departure to China got few and few, I had more and more parties, as the Mahjongg evening with Tina at Nicole's house (a fellow student of Chinese studies), that was really awesome, I hope I can get a chance to play Mahjongg again! The same entry briefly mentions the combined pool and Dr. Who party I had at my house, where I invited Tina, Helen and Tina's two friends from Finnland. ^Here 's a description of at least some of my preperations for China. At the end of July I then participated the 5 th SALO meeting (an Esperanto meeting for children of Herzberg am Harz and Góra, Poland), where I gave language courses and played kindergarten teacher, as I sometimes had the impression. ^August
I started that month proving that
zum Teufel is probably not an americanism. Ten days before my departure
I wrote about more preparations; this might be interesting to someone else going to China as well. But I was bored one day and started to learn Slovio (a Slavic-based planned language project) and forgot about it the next day again. Quite fun, though. I had some problems with my Chinese visa , though. Then, after almost one year, just in time before going to Kunming, I finished my German-Chinese vocabulary deck in ANKI, so read more about ANKI here! Then I arrived in China , the adventure began. Read more about my first five days in China here. One day later we all had to take an examination at the hospital , scary... September
My first impression of
Chinese education can be read here. By the way, I need to say that I started writing (almost) everything in German, sorry for the non-germanophone readers of mine. About our new Japanese roommate Takumi I wrote here. And I posted my schedule of the first term
, which I haven't updated in a while, though. So it's quite outdated. The four of our room then went to eat our first Hot Pot , I went to the Minority Village in Kunming with two Hongkong girls and my Japanese roommate. Later we had "real" (i.e. better) Hot Pot with the Thais . Speaking of Thai, I began to learn Thai in September, too! We had an international food party and I visited some temples with my friend Haiyan. Also pretty amazing was our experience with KTV (the Chinese karaoke ), and I was invited to a Chinese family dinner of a friend. October
We climbed the
West Mountains here in Kunming. They also began switching off our energy at 12:30 every night and we started with calligraphy lessons... which I later was too lazy to go to again. But I bought a new camera for ¥ 1,860 and wrote something interesting about my financial situation here in China (both in the same entry). Other than that, October was quite uneventful.
November
The Thais and I went to the big
zoo in Kunming and watched the pandas, tigers and peacocks, that was really cool. Later that month, our roommate Takumi left again. This entry
tells about out mid-term exams, our internet problem and a presentation I gave about Germany in front of 200 Chinese students, how our roommate Li Rui changed to another room and some more things. Some of these things already happened in December, though, not sure. ;) December
Our teachers made us go to the
sports meet at Chenggong and there's also a brief description of how I spent Christmas in China with Chinese, Cantonese, Dai, Australian, Singhalese, Yi and Thai friends. The results of my final exams
of the first semester here in China I only wrote today. Today is the last day of 2010 and I'm probably going to spend it with Tik and Co., though it doesn't seem that anyone has prepared or planned anything... I'll see. ~ The End ~

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Tag 128: Abschlussprüfungen

Es ist der letzte Tag im Jahr, aber noch nicht aller Unterrichtstage Abend. Ja, auch heute, an Silvester, We had lessons. Some people (such as Tik) even had to write one final exam - which tests are way more difficult than ours, as Tik, Mhuey and the other Thais here study properly Sinology, as I have done so at home in Leipzig or . still do. Amila and I are here, so to speak, only of "fun", that is for refreshing and improving our Chinese skills, so the tests for us is not important. Maybe this is the reason why our teachers have designed the tests so incredibly easy. We recall that time at the Mid Term Exams I had an average of 77% in total income. Not bad ... and now? Oral Chinese (汉语 口语, Hànyǔ Kǒuyǔ ): Since we had a written part that was surprisingly difficult. Not really hard, but not as easy as expected. Then an oral part: everyone should repeat phrases individually. Sounds easy, is it for most, since I am a failure. Most sets I've also at the 3rd Time and using not get along, even if they were not sooooooo long. My comprehension is just still my weak point. Then was read a text for me no problem. And a short talk about about my favorite book (I have
of The Time Traveler's Wife tells
), was also quite easy. The result: 34/40 points verbally, in writing 55/60, 89% together. reading course (报刊 阅读, Bàokān Yuedu ): We knew before, everything that turn comes, even the reading text, we knew before. Accordingly, I have in examining also
94%
achieved. Intensive Reading Course (汉语 精读, Hànyǔ Jingdu ): The examination papers were

identical with those from the mock exam, which I am still good could remember, although we did not get them back. I wrote cheerfully to myself and thought there should jump out at least 90%. I was almost finished, there came to the teacher, puts my complete controlled trial exam on the table with the words, I should not make the same mistakes again (even if it not many). I was stunned, but then have compared simple and really spread out some errors. A few I had missed, so my end result was "only" 96.5% . Listening (汉语 听力, Hànyǔ Tīnglì ): I've imagined the worst. Auch, weil mein Hörverständnis immer noch mein Hauptproblem ist, auch wenn ich sehr viel besser geworden bin. Die Prüfung lief hauptsächlich so ab, dass die Lehrerin Sätze und Dialoge vorlas und wir Fragen dazu beantworten mussten, meist zum Ankreuzen: A, B, C oder D. Die Prüfung ging so, war anspruchsvoll (die einzige wirklich anspruchsvolle), und lustigerweise hab ich zusammen mit einem Laoten die höchste Punktzahl:
76 %
— immerhin! Insgesamt ergibt sich damit ein Durchschnitt von 88,9 % , der sich doch sehen lassen kann (wenn den irgendeiner sehen wöllte). Schade, dass die Magister-Abschlussprüfung in Deutschland nicht so einfach werden wird. The results of the HSK exam
Incidentally, we have not yet received, and the day would come by mail.

Sun .. these were the "real" tests. Now a test in their own right that may answer a frequently asked question: How many characters you kannst'n there now?

This is (despite

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Anki
) to say relatively heavy, but the internet there is a website (in English):
www.clavisinica.com / character-test-applet.html

There you can ask more checking levels and other settings, the program uses a variety of characters for the debate and The meaning. You simply click the only or press the numbers on the keyboard. Afterwards, the program makes a projection and shares an estimate on how many characters you know about. If one does this several times and is the average, the result is possibly even representative. I have set: advanced skill level ,
72 characters to test and


simplified character style, then I can go through the 5 × and formed the average. The result tadaaaa ... I know about
2115
Chinese characters. If you, the you sometimes have learned Chinese or learn the also want to know, then makes it just too time this test here and post the result as a comment. :) Oh yes: if you can a little Chinese, it is easy to "cheat", characters say to one that is often how they are pronounced about
and also sometimes to what a subject it might be. As you watch a rare characters, and can by using the specified five debates the look out, according to the phonetic component most likely, and based on the meanings of the 5 that comes closest to the radical. I have not done, and if I did not really know the characters, have I did not fall, but only 1, 1 pressed, even if it was nonsense.
Sun I think I will still prepare an entry. And although the annual, mandatory Jahreszusammenfaselung. This takes time ... ;)
I hope now everybody in a happy new year 2011 (or 2554)! ^ ^

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Tag 125: Flöhliche übelall Weihnacht ...

Hey, everybody! Later still,
Merry Christmas! • Merry Christmas! • Feliĉan Kristnaskon!
圣诞节 快 了! • สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส!


So now Christmas is over ... and as expected, was felt in China from Christmas is not too much. No snow, no Christmas music, Christmas trees, and then only as Ladendeko, few people wish a Merry Christmas and giving gifts is apparently only rarely.
Even though I really like Christmas, I do not think it bad that here in China for Christmas everything seems to be a trendy export. What is currently fashionable is Sprühschnee from the can. Iiikse! My Christmas I've spent as follows:


Christmas Eve:


We actually had more Unterricht, und sogar Jahresendklausur im Fach
Jingdu , was aber einfach war. Der Unterricht danach fiel aus, dafür gab es überraschenderweise schon unser Stipendiengeld zum Abholen, 1400 ¥ (ca. 160 €) für den Monat Januar (Dezember hatten wir schon letzten Monat als Doppelauszahlung zusammen mit dem November bekommen). Das Februargeld gibt's aber erst im März, da – wie schon mal geschrieben – vom 7. Januar bis 23. Februar Ferien sind. Ich freu mich schon. ^^ Trotz unweihnachtlicher Stimmung habe ich mich auf den Weg gemacht, doch für jemanden ein Geschenk zu besorgen. Nämlich für ติ๊ก (Tik). Fündig wurde ich in der Qinghua-Buchhandlung and near the "Foreigner Street" with a tiny German-book (so containing words and phrases) and a Rubik's cube. The weather was very friendly way:
17 ° C and pattering sunshine! Sweet I omitted because Tik Tak at the day with a toothache in bed tormented ... chocolate's place was therefore ibuprofen
© 400 for the pain.

was the evening party at Apple & Oiling, announced the two Hong Kong women. I was the only German and the only male guest, but does nothing. It was very tasty spaghetti carbonara was really as at home, and even made! This little party with strawberries Vienna (sic) on a spit. Of the girls was one of the Dai minority (傣族, Dai-to ) and said actually Dai Lü (which is related to Thai, Lao and Zhuang). Everyone should bring a small gift to celebrate for about 20 ¥, I found a flashlight (which I think is very practical from 0:30 here), which got Apple. I'm on the other hand me a kind note booklet / diary / homework book erwichtelt. Maybe I can use one day. Have been so very lucky, because the rest of the gifts was almost exclusively aus Mädelszeugs. ;) Sehr lang ging die Feier allerdings nicht, denn die Wohnheimregel besagt, ab 22:00 sollen bitte alle fremden Besucher wieder aus dem Haus sein, und die kamen alle von Auswärts. Blöd, das. 1. Weihnachtsfeiertag:


Nachmittags ging's weiter mit Weihnachten: Guy (aus Tralien), seine thailändische Freundin Tip – deren echter Name übrigens linguistisch gesehen total cool ist: ตรีอักษร / Triakson [trīːʔàksɔ̌ːn] , was aus dem Pali kommt und "Drei Konsonanten" bedeutet! :D –, Guys chinesischer 陆春华 buddy alias "Eric" from which a Chinese girlfriend, Amila, Tik and I found ourselves at a guy. He lives in a nifty apartment with kitchen, giant TV, balcony, washing machine, bedroom, bathroom, sofa and all the trimmings. It was cooked Thai food, in this case rice, some vegetables and shrimp, which were very tasty (and consumption because without exoskeleton), after warm banana in coconut sauce, also delicious. Meanwhile, we have watched several films:
"No Country for Old Men" , "Attornment" and the beginning of "The Bridge Over River Kwai" . The latter was shot in Sri Lanka by the way, what is the "Thai" Prisoners at once saw (if you know some Thai and Sinhalese). ;) All in all, nice evening. Guy has lent me two small Phrase: one (only stupid back now that the Laotians all to Laos) for Laotian and dialects, and for some minority languages in China. Since Kunming-hua, the local dialect in there ... I have to have a look at times.
second Christmas Day:
I thought I could do to sleep longer and hang out the rest of the day in bed, but it was different: about noon my cell phone rang: it is Tik, me and Amila asks them when towing several boxes and bags from the apartment of a friend leaving the country ("Phi Dream", the one with the chinchillas) to help. No problem ... we thought. The bags and boxes and folding tables, but were so hard sauischst that have been encountered some problems, Huck it to the estimated kilometers from the residence. Oh man we were done!
the rest of the day I spent fertigzuübersetzen the subtitles of "The Linguists" , which are namely, by Helen and Marek on the JES (Esperanto-week meeting in Burg, Germany on New Year's Eve) shown. Degree or so completed!

was left on 25 yes again around the month and I was quite amazed by my calculations - I 'm in my 4th Month in China just silly 887.4 yen (about 102 €) spent! So this is really worth a round of applause, right? Otherwise it was always so 1200-1600 ¥. Another thing: I carry myself with the thought of buying myself a SmartPhone, I said that? However, no iPhone (I like Apple, not much to proprietary), but one with Android operating system ... It is hard for me to distinguish myself from 4 types:
HTC
Desire, Desire HD HTC, HTC
Wildfire
and Samsung i9000 S Galaxy. They are all great and all possible, but also all costs' nen lot of money (even in China, good original software and hardware is not much cheaper than at home), maybe I'll take the four cheapest or second cheapest of these. Who has such a thing or so knows, can I give you recommendations.

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Tag 117: Meine Adresse in Kunming

[de] know For all of my German friends who want to leave me like to a card, letter or even send a packet, but still not where I live (because I told you not to report), Here at last the answer. The postcard is from my parents (after 1 ½ months) that is received. Since it worked, here is my address for all: [s]

For all English-speaking friends who would like to send me a card, a letter or even a parcel, but still don't know where I live (because I didn't tell you yet, duh), here's the answer. My parents' postcard finally arrived (after 1 ½ months). Because it worked, here's my address for everyone now:
[eo]
Por miaj esperantaj geamikoj, kiuj ŝatus sendi al mi karton, leteron aŭ eĉ pakedon, sed ankoraŭ ne scias, kie mi loĝas (ĉar mi ja ankoraŭ ne diris al vi), ĉi tie troviĝas la respondo. La bildkarto de miaj gepatroj finfine alvenis (post 1 ½ monatoj). Ĉar ĝi funkciis, jen mia adreso por vi ĉiuj:
[zh]
China and Taiwan to my friends, if you want to send I have a postcard, a letter or small package, but do not know where I live (because I did not tell you thing), here are answers. My parents travel a half months after the postcard finally arrived. Because it can send, I will tell you my address:

André Müller (

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安德烈 )
Yunnan University of Nationalities International Education School Yi'eryi 134 650 031 Kunming Street China







Thanks!

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Thanks!
Dankon! André - Andrew Vortarulo (运动会, ) in Chenggong.

谢谢		-
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Chenggong (呈贡) is a district of Kunming in the far south. Our university - the Yunnan Nationalities University (云南 民族 大学, yúnnán Minzu Daxue ), only once in memory - there is another campus that is really very very nice because he rebuilt and is still quite clean. Life there is very comfortable, but also boring, because of the distance to the city center. Karina (a Brazilian I know of here) and Guy (pronounced: [ɡi ː] , the Austral-Swiss Thai fluently speaks the envy * * study) there. And yesterday there was just a big sports event as it seems at every university in China once a year to be. For the students really a great event with much fanfare. Anyone who grew up in East Germany, can imagine the importance of which about. With several school buses 's went off in any event, at 7:00 am
(ie half an hour after us in the dormitory of the current terms)
. Amila, the Nangis ( Nangi is the Sinhalese word for "little sister" to the 3 Srilankanerinnen meant the age of Amila and I) and I, Lina were from Norway and some 30 Thai we, the other buses housed more Thais and other nations. After about an hour we arrived in Chenggong, got out and shivered first: Chenggong is so far removed from urban micro-climate that the wind is so strong and the temperature is low (allegedly -2 ° C) was that we all are almost totgefroren , namely we had for about half an hour waiting for our teacher ... They came then and we got red polo shirts with the symbol and the International Education School (国际 教育 学院,
Guoji Jiàoyù Xueyuan ) back to back. Not bad!
Then we came to a large sports field with a grandstand full of Chinese. Not only do we foreign students, and other (Chinese) from other institutions such as philosophy, foreign language school and further. All were representative in uniform, in three achievement with a flag and the Institute names were then presented by the respondent and are then marched to the sports ground in jubilation and applause of the audience - including us. Even our countries were presented, for example, 德国 ( Déguó
, Germany). Then it was time to Wait ... on the sports field.
were held for a few speeches, then the national anthem was played (a very nice way, think like me) and some people with flags running around, then went and ourselves from the square and watched from the grandstand area (but at ground level) the spectacle. There was dancing a lot and performed feats of acrobats, acrobatics, swing bands (äscha as before!) And finally a belly-free group of minority dancers. was frozen majority of us, to all the Thais decided to look into the distance. Since we were in the same bus, we joined of them went away, and gathered in a sort of hall to wait for the teacher and the bus, then came an hour later. Frozen half we went (residential) home, at about 12:00 or 12:30. From the Sports Day, I really had the impression that this is really typical Chinese. This is what one is against it or has it once on TV (we were just not as many thousands of people there). In our favorite eating road, 圆 西路 (
Yuánxīlù
), gave it to then licked 混沌 (hundun) and 饺子 (jiǎozi)
to bursting. I'm getting really fat at the delicious food. Hab I mentioned that I take my impassable in recent years 58 kg now about 63 or 64 kg weigh? Well ... Incidentally, I now have not only this Uni-shirt, but also a new sweater, blue and warm, from NIKE (höhöhö) that I help with Tik in the 121-road (一二 一 大街, Yi 'Eryi Dajie -acquired). At first, he still cost 95 yen, or about € 10.70, which for a simple sweater is quite expensive. Foreigners holding price. Tik knows more haggling with (although in Thailand is not usual) and we have complained so long about the expensive price and then wanted to go already (or "Go!" in Thai is some fun in "Let's go!" ป๊ะ [páʔ] in the high range) and got a prompt then still the sweater "nachgeworfen", for only 60 ¥ ( about 6.75 €). Another, more attractive (grüne!) Cardigan we have received but not so - that's according to Tik but somewhere else for 50 yen instead of 95 ¥. Let's see ...

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Tag 110: Der Tag Heizstrahler

There are currently not so much new to tell. The university life is as usual, sometimes boring, sometimes interesting, but more boring. The weather here is variable: sometimes the sun shines, sometimes it rains, sometimes is it very cold (4 ° C), sometimes very warm (19 ° C). Above all, the evening temperatures drop greatly, warm is it more from lunchtime to early evening, and it's really very pleasant. Incredibly, that is December ... I could swear it was April. Or October. So it feels.

But south of the Yangtze River (长江, Chángjiāng
) there are no heaters in China, not anywhere. Therefore, it is always cold, whether outside or inside. Noon's is even colder inside than outside. Therefore, Amila and I are considering to buy us a heating source in the form of a radiant heater: 49 yuan (5.57 €) cost a good piece. In Dorm room connected went out after about 5 minutes the light: no, no power failure, it was not 0:30 clock
(where this is automatically cut off the current, every night) , no, the Watts were just too (power?) much. The device consumes only 700 W actually, but that seems to be too much. The trick came with the departure by a fellow student: (No, not Takumi ) Mr. Inaba , our Japanese fellow student, has gone to a few days ago for about a month back to Japan, most of his stuff he has here to live with friends. We have also placed some things in the cupboards, and we also got up liquid, given tasty Japanese sauce (とん かつ リース,
Tonkatsu-Riisu
), oil, a folding table and several extension cords and power strip or borrowed. The latter use, we were able to tap the external power source from the bathroom, the more power (it also feeds the boiler for the shower, m-hm!) And also works at night, when everything in the room is dark. Whether this is completely legal, we do not know. We do not care ... we do not freeze to death, yes! And yes, it really is very nice and warm with the new part. this Thursday and Friday is the way, no classes - sports festival in China (as in all communist countries?) a very great and wonderful thing. We are being carted to the school bus after all Chenggong (呈贡) and must "participate". I hope it is only meant to watch. I do not think I will again make (a Chinese version of Mr. Herzig) high and long jump. ;) The week is then exam time - somewhat earlier than at the end of the semester because the Laotians (50% of our class) all go home earlier. Our last test is the way on 24 be December. What do I do for Christmas, I do not even ...

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101: Rückblick

Finally an entry! I've written anything for so long, was The main reason that we had here for over a week no internet in the dorm, and also that I was sick and busy with a lecture, not to mention the HSK test all ...
* * lufthol
... but first things first:

tests:
We had written some checks in all of our 4 subjects. Sometimes they were the oral exams and some of them were really ridiculous (to tell than 5 minutes, what 'NEM any topic), but sometimes really difficult. The results gave's Percentage: 精读 (Reading Course): 91%, 口语 (Oral): 85%, 听力 (Listening): 66% and 阅读 (newspaper reading): 64%. In the last two I was the next best thing, if I remember correctly, the first two even the best. I seem not to be so bad, summed up the results for these four "intermediate examinations" under 77%. Not bad. End of December in the week before Christmas, we write the final exams for this semester. Let's see how the. And then there was
still the HSK test, HSK 汉语 水平 考试 stands for (H
ànyǔ
S huǐpíng K ǎoshì , such as: Chinese level test) and is a large, well-known method to determine the level of Chinese knowledge. As a result, one has a score and a stage, between 3 and 12 or something like that. The test is really hard, so that one need hardly dream of it, to have everything right. Half is all right. The test took place in the neighboring Yunnan University, and included a hearing test (with headphones), which was less severe than expected, a reading text part that was quasi unschaffbar, the time was too short: a few texts I had not read it, but I just thought: Oh, it's apparently about the doctor fish! What I know about the doctor fish ... and then the answers have answered according to my knowledge of the world. Hopefully it'll bring me some points, it is all multiple choice. The grammar section was to be expected against sauschwer, while the Gap part was just bearable. All in all difficult, but not as heavy as the exercises in Tiks exercise book (I was there for part 2 / 15 points). Let's see when will the results ... Goodbye Internet ...
The main reason why I wrote about 2 weeks is nothing but the sudden and unexpected loss of our beloved Internet access throughout our dorm. Nothing doing, even the teachers Yang did not help. We some of them have used the wireless Internet in our cafe, or on campus ... there it is but especially in the evening icecold, so I had probably caught a bad cold. After
on 7 Internet-less day with a dozen students to Laoshi Yang went to complain, has recommended to us an alternative that was a bit expensive: register to use software, in the 6th Stock will be to unlock dial. Complicated, but now it's done. We will refuse but to pay for any of 40 yuan per month for what we deserve from Uni-page and what some pay for anyway (yes I scholarship). Well at least it works, even if it's very lahm ist. Vortrag



Vor einiger Zeit bei der English Corner am 翠湖 (
Cuìhú , Green Lake) sprach mich mal ein Lehrer von der Businessschule der Yunnan Normal University (das ist die Schule, wo auch Haiyan und Yijiao studieren) an, ob ich nicht dort mal einen Vortrag halten wollen würde, auf Englisch über Deutschland. Ich hatte damals zugestimmt und mich dann ein paar mal mit ihm abgesprochen — schließlich hab ich (v.a. draußen und im Café) einen Vortrag zusammengeschustert mit Bildern aus dem Netz und von mir selbst, 50 Folien, und am 91. Tag (24. November) war's dann soweit: ich bin mit dem Taxi dorthingefahren, wurde von Lehrer Wang uns zwei seiner Freunde zum Essen eingeladen und dann in den Vortragssaal gebracht, der voll war mit etwa... ja, 200 Studenten, in Worten: zweihundert! Aber alles lief prima, ich war auch kaum nervös, es hing ja nichts davon ab und ich kannte mich im Thema aus. Die Studenten fanden's toll, obwohl sie glaube ich nicht alles verstanden haben (Erstsemestler, deren Englisch nicht so sonderlich gut ist). Statt am Ende mir Fragen zu stellen zum Thema Germany , haben mir die meisten gesagt, dass mein Vortrag toll war und dass ich doch wiederkommen soll. Und natürlich wollten sie alle meine QQ- und Telefonnummern haben, hinterher. Nach meinem Vortrag wollten the bravest girls all took photos with me, really funny! =) There is also a few familiar faces were there, who listened to: Haiyan, who came for an examination but unfortunately, very late, Yijiao, which is now on semester abroad in Thailand, Qinghua, which I had invited and MINF, a friend of Haiyan I also met once (rather embarrassingly recognized) had. Mr. Wang Qinghua me and then moved again to our respective universities, behind. Nice! Theoretically, I paid my taxi money and I get about 150 yuan possibly as a reward ... but that did not happen.
Li Rui Li Rui
(aka Thilina Thushara), one of my two Sinhala roommate had a problem with Amila, the other Sinhalese ... I really do not know what happened, we accused each other lies, and Li Rui then claimed to be able to no longer live together with Amila and is then pulled out easily. Now he lives in the 2nd Floor in room number 222 and we get to see him any more. The two do not talk anymore ... hm. So now I live alone with Amila here, which is frankly more enjoyable. More space, more rest, even though I had nothing against Li Rui.
Whether we get a new roommate, I do not know yet ... maybe. We'll see! New teacher


Our teacher in the "Intensive Reading Course" (精读,
Jingdu ) had short-term (again) to Beijing, because her daughter is seriously ill. Now she has to her granddaughter (if I understand correctly) take care and look after something for her daughter. Therefore, we now have a new teacher: Ms Cheng (程), which is also a bit older and somehow - I can not help it - something European looks. Her teaching is soooooo bad: the coronation of the Chinese teaching technique: she talks and talks and solve the tasks in the book itself asks us nothing (but makes dictation, which I think is good), it is dead boring in the course. In addition, she talks too fast. All in all, it is nice. become net is the way our once so hated reading course with their drill instructor military technology. In our worst failed test, they changed their teaching techniques strongly: we go slowly through the lessons, talking through each set to read only one out for yourself and then discuss together the reasons for the answers and she says even the vocabulary. We are very pleased, even though we had not said anything. She has no less than himself. :)
flu

At the same time as my talk, I began to Germany to get sick, apparently a Cold. Cough and fever and general malaise. My fever was pretty strong, I have two days spent in bed and took ibuprofen, which helped initially, the fever has not somehow fight completely. After two days I've really got a bit scared, what could be worse, especially since my head is really hot was. The rescue came in the form of a cold washcloth, the Tik
[our neighbor Thailand, where the left image] worried on my forehead applied (the water is evaporated almost immediately), keep topping. And really, it helped! After she was gone, I fell asleep, woke up after a good night again , and was free from fever: a look at the clock told me then, since Tiks washcloth action is only slightly more than an hour passed and it was 1:30 at night. A few days later I was well again and only had a little cough, but then I had also bought the tablets for a cold, however. The Chinese love the yes, eating tablets when they are sick. That is always the first question, if one is ill, whether he had swallowed medicine ... I've already spoken to think again. The love of money is
The third month was (with day 92) and I have to re-calculate my monthly expenses that appear to be less and less:
1219.6 yuan (140.82 €) in last month. Wow! Nearly 200 yuan less than the fellowship gives me. Today I spent 10 yuan by the way for a new notebook / diary, the old is full. I have had the old book until day 100 and day started with day one hundred and first Does not look too bad ... who my attention Flickr photos see Staring,'s faces in the photos next time lying around somewhere!

Linda
Who is Linda? My niece, my sister's daughter that is small, the end of the month will be a year old. The course is at home in Leipzig, and I see them only every now and if I use skype with my parents or my sister - But she is cool and can now run it! Is this normal with just a year? She also begins to speak, slow, yet it is still in the Brabbelphase and I find it sad that I can not document their progress (hmpf I have been well until I have children myself!). According to witness reports of my sister, she says "Mama" to her, and her father to dinner. And if the neighbor's dog barks, says Linda [baʔ baʔ], I've even listened to, great! =)
I should talk a picture of Linda reintun ... Mhueys birthday



Mhuey, our neighbor and Tik Thai housemate had yesterday its 22nd Birthday. Two Thais from the 2nd Stock you have given a large Winnie the Pooh plush bear, after they have alarmed her with a slice of melon (you know: Mhuey's Afraid of melons, hihi!). Tik and I bought a cake yesterday (see right: Mhuey with cake), which was plastered then we all (Amila, I and the 5 Thai girls). Am I wrong, or Mhuey looks really not that much out of Asia? Maybe I see very simply not ...
Holiday

No, there are no holidays, but I can sometimes tell when the holidays are here, next year: 8 January to 23 February, these are the holidays around the Spring Festival (春节,
Chūnjié ), which this year on the 3rd February falls. By the way, you will be interested in the weather here: yes, it has become cold and relatively cold. At night, in the morning and evening here's estimated 10 ° C and without heating (south of the Yangtze's not), the bitter cold, really, the day the sun and it will be up to 20 ° C seems like today. Tomorrow is the 2nd Advent and this photo I have just made out: