• Living in China,  My Life

    And they forced me to leave my home

    After spending my first spring in a dorm at the campus I wanted to have a real home. I rented a small apartment, meaning one room, from the nearby village and quickly started to call it home. I loved the…

  • Living in China

    My attempt to fight the negativity

    During my first year in China I met and studied with lots of people suffering from culture shock. A few never got it, most of people recovered after some time and for some it was too much. With this post…

  • Living in China

    Rate My Chinese! (Audio clip included)

      [ti_audio media=”394″]   Last year I wrote that my Chinese pronunciation sounds like my boyfriend’s. That is because I mainly speak Chinese with him and less with other people. So this time you can actually hear how my putonghua (Mandarin…