Blogs from Taizhou, Zhejiang, China, Asia

Here we are, already mid-March and yet my last blog entry accounts only of my arrival in Taizhou - now more than 4 months past! It is time, then, for me to skip the narrative and just tell you how I find things to be out here in Taizhou. There is so much to tell that I hardly know where to begin. I think the best idea is to start by recounting my initial impressions of various aspects of my city, school, colleagues and job, then work from these to elaborate how my opinion has (or has not) changed in the intervening months. I shall do this in a series of short thematic blogs, for otherwise I will inevitably lose myself on a twisting path of tangents and we shall never proceed far enough for my ... read more

Hi! Here another update, although I didn't do too much the past week... First I passed two days in Shanghai, chilling a bit. The 28th I had coffee with a girl from Hong Kong, went to the Shanghai museum and then I was a bit lazy and actually went to the cinema to see Harry Potter in 3D haha. In the evening I experienced the Shanghai sightseeing tunnel, which I found a bit of a anticlimax. But then I climbed the pearl tower (highest building in Asia I believe) and that was cool! Gives a great view over Shanghai, I'll put some pictures so you can see ;) I felt like a proper superstar there, because I think at least 10 Chinese people wanted to make a photo with me haha. In the bottem of the ... read more