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Tag 134: Tag 134: Neujahr, Friseur & Reisepläne



New Year It is the 6th January 2011 and New Year I have survived without prejudice: but not surprising. It is in fact nothing was going on. Nothing, absolutely nothing. In China, apparently no one celebrates New Year's Eve. It's funny that invented the country where the black powder and is famous for firecrackers on New Year's Eve not heard a single blast was. As if it were an x-any evening in April. Somehow bad ... for it - so I was several pages, the word "war zone" reported use - is to leave here for the Spring Festival the right post. Well let's see ... This year is the Spring Festival on the 3rd February, when I'm not mistaken. celebrated New Year's so I'm just as Christmas
've only briefly with Tik & Mhuey exchanged New Year greetings. There is to this "event" did no photographic evidence (of which even?), Left here a photo that has taken my sister at home in Leipzig. Directly behind our house. Is not it beautiful? :)
Hairdressers


since I was in China I'm still not at the hairdresser, but my hair is naturally also getting longer. I usually go only when they are really annoying and I always hang out in the face. Just like this time What is more, I have not taken a really trust the Chinese hairdressing and there was so skeptical. In our favorite eating mile, 圆 西路 (Yuánxīlù) , there's also three barber shops, all strangely served by men (but seems to be quite normal in China). I've got a showing, say, as I wanted to have it (Containing only shorter, and the sides a little less), feared and hoped. Without glasses, I also do not see, what do the people there with me. Otherwise, the procedure was quite similar as well as at home: wash in front, then cut. Surprisingly, then wash again, and then blow-dry. About the result I was surprised it looked good, better than I's get in Germany so far, the time was about the same (just a little longer by further washing), the price: 12 € I paid in Leipzig usually including student discount. Here in Kunming's were 10 ¥ (equivalent to € 1.15), less than a tenth. Wow! I think it would have can be a bit shorter, but with the result (see left) I am very satisfied. Tik and Mhuey that matter. :)
travel plans
And now the big surprise ...
I'm going to Thailand!


... and indeed tomorrow. With Tik. :) The plan is as follows: Tik and I are going tomorrow afternoon / evening from Kunming wrong with a coach, along with another Thai woman called from here Foam (who calls his child "foam") and their 4? Friends of the Nachbaruni. This is a sleeping bus because the ride will last about 12 hours, This is very cheap but: I paid 306 yen (about 35 €). The stations of the journey will be whole:


1) 昆明 (Kunming)
: Click here 's going on at 18:00, with the Sleeper. This seems generally to be a rather ordinary long-distance transport in Southeast Asia and China. The journey takes about 12 hours to ... 2) 西双版纳 (Xīshuāngbǎnná) : arrival date tomorrow morning at 6:00, for instance, there is a friend of Foam invited and at the border to buy me the visa for Laos. For Thailand, you do not need (it gets a hot Stamp in the passport and is good '), but even for Laos. This costs about $ 40, I have exchanged a while ago from Tip (Guys girlfriend)).
3) ຫລວງ ນໍ້າທາ (Luang Namtha) : I think through this Lao town it goes through, and then just take the bus to Thailand. The roads will probably be very rich serpentine, Guy has already warned me. Bad I need a Laosvisum, because even though I only travel ... Laos is, after all the guilt that it must lie precisely between Thailand and China!
4) เชียงราย (Chiang Rai) : first stop in Thailand: here, met with Guy and tip, and possibly a bit rumgefahren. Where, we are not as clear ... Let's see the two coming by car. :)
5) เชียงใหม่ (Chiang Mai) : Tik and I might stay there for 3 or 4 days, there it is ment to be very pretty, scenic, there is also a zoo with pandas. Oh, and located in northern Thailand, and that figure will probably still 30 ° C and more to be there. Uff ... Sunburn in January!
6) กำแพงเพชร (Kamphaeng Phet) : grandma lives there Tiks mother's side, yet also her aunt and several other family members. It should be possible to live there for several days. Tik but says there's is pretty boring because Kamphaeng Phet is a 100,000-strong village level. Supposedly can drive motorcycle but Tik - The yearning I want! : D
7) ชลบุรี (Chonburi) : is where the
University of Tik, Mhuey and pretty much all other Thais here. In addition, there lives one of the few Esperanto speakers in Thailand, which are Pasporta Servo mentioned - I have requested; it works: we can live there for 2, 3 days in his house. The man himself, Mark S., Australian, Thai and has a house with his wife, their son and a few others. Chonburi is the way to the sea. I will take lots of photos. *-* 8) กรุงเทพฯ (Krung Thep) : better known as the Bangkok
(and yes, I'm just starting the full name by heart), the capital of Thailand!. Here I'll 1, 2 or 3 days to spend without Tik, which goes to her parents in Chachoengsao. But that is not bad because there Mhuey, Noom and his brother Nuke (Thai nickname, well ...) live. I can probably stay there in the next room of the latter two, to just watch them and let it show Bangkok. Eventually, 20 probably as to the January creating all around me (including statistics) to the airport and put me back in the plane to Kunming, the cost would probably almost 2200 yuan proud ... uff. Well. Sun described briefly. I do not know how it looks like this in Thailand with the Internet, but I hope that I one probably. from each city (except for the first few) a record will be able to write (I think less). Mhuey is actually already in Thailand, describing the climate there as "damn hot" (ร้อน ฉิบหาย, spr.: [rɔ̀ːn ʨʰìp hǎːj]</a>). Na da... :)

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• Review of 2010 •



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.