Living in China
Renting an apartment in Guangzhou and how I found my dream home
Look! I can actually see the Pearl River from my window. Finding an apartment to live in isn’t easy, and it can be far from easy when you are renting in a country that is still new to you.…
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…
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…
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…