So after months of hard work Hou Xia, the owner of the AiKe bar (爱客) in which I teach English, together with her boyfriend and the managers opened a new bar- MoreFun (魔方- magic cube). Of course on the occasion of it was organized an opening party which lasted four days. Every day many guests, around 80- 100 people- friends, family and even my friends from the university. And everyone was same impressed. Waiters, bartenders and chefs (not to mention the managers) gave 100%. From 6:30PM dinner that included about twenty meals and from 9:00PM coctail party :) Only delicious things... Margarita, B-52, Long Island Iced Tea and even... my hot wine which I introduced to the menu and which gained popularity among my Chinese friends and all the guests. Except that lots of fruit, desserts, ... read more

The Chinese people are famous for coming up with newer and newer products that spread around the world. Imagination has no limits though. One day, while walking some street I noticed a guy selling... small chickens. In a few colors. As I got to know aftarwards, they are dyed (permanently!) and genetically modified so they don't grow up. And people are buying them as... pets. They eat dogs and cats and domesticate chickens. Well... The matter of liklings? *** Chinczycy slynni sa z wymyslania coraz to nowszych produktow, ktore zasypuja caly swiat. Wyobraznia jednak nie ma granic. Przechodzac pewnego dnia ulica zauwazylam pana sprzedajacego... male kurczaki. W kilku kolorach. Jak sie okazalo bowiem sa one pofarbowane (na stale!) i tak genetycznie zmodyfikowane, aby nie urosly. A ludzie kupuja je jako... domowe zwierzatka. Jedza psy i koty ... read more

Chinese people really like Halloween. And although they have their own (Chinese) version of this "holiday", they still like to celebrate the American one. And like many Europeans, they just treat this day as another excuse to party and have fun. *** Chinczycy bardzo lubia Halloween. I choc maja swoja (chinska) wersje tego "swieta", wciaz obchodza amerykanskie Halloween. I jak wielu Europejczykow traktuja ten dzien po prostu jako okazje do zabawy.... read more

So today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, or in Chinese, Zhongqiu Jie (中秋節). It is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese people dating back over 3,000 years to the moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. The Chinese Moon Festival is on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, which this year is on the 3rd of October. The legend says that Chang Er, the moon goddess of immortality, flew to the moon where they lived happily ever after. You might still see her dancing on the moon during the Moon Festival! ;) On this day families and friends gather to celebrate together, eat moon cakes and obviously admire... the bright mid-autumn full moon. In China, the Moon Festival is as important as Christmas in the West. The typical ... read more

Before I came to China, somebody asked me if I was going to work here. I said yes, beacause I don't like wasting time. But now I have a feeling it's actually all about killing it. I'm not feeling here well as everyone probably knows since I'm not hiding it at all. I'm not hiding either that every day my aggression, irritation and anger towards this environment raise more and more. So when I got three jobs, I accepted all of them. Work as a "therapy"? I guess so... The best way "not to think" and not to spend too much time with just myself. First I work in... the Chinese preschool. Yes, I teach Chinese kids English, which actually makes me happy. Although 36 kids in one group sometimes scares me. After I come back ... read more