Life And Times In China

i forgot the blogg for a little while..

the last weeks have been really nice. Last weekend i was in a fashion show for eco-clothes. it was really fun and i met some great people. We had clothes from 3 different designers and it was all a big mess behind the scene when we were chaninging clothes. At least i didnt fall in the stairs with my high heels..phuu! After the show we went to a club called song together with some girls i met. Had some nice drinks and danced a lot! Then we contuined to the boat, which is actually a real boat on the river. nice place but not so many people. The night ended in the party district Sanlitun. Poor oliver rusched home to switch shirt and leave his bags as he was coming home from his trip the same day, and missed the fashionshow with 30 minutes.

Saturday me and oli went bowling with his collegue michael and his wife sophie. Girls against the boys and shame un us we lost and had to pay dinner..=( We went to a middle eastern restaurant with a lot of good food and also a bellydancer. So now im thinking of taking some classes with sophie..cant hurt!

So this week i’ve been working as usual accept yesterday when we(some people at my job)went to eat giant pizza and drink free beer. Tonight we actually we went out too. Every wednesday quiz night and winners free beer at an irish pub. But we were not that good…

okidoki..time to sleep…gonatt!

puss

Beijing is smoggy and everyday we have rain. I’ve seen the sun on time since i came back. But i guess at the Olympics its gonna be nice as they are trying to controll the weather.–> http://www.usatoday.com/weather/research/2008-02-29-china-weather_N.htm

At work everything is good and we started our project for real now. Its a lot to do and we ar all behind the schedule. But its much more fun now and time is going fast! Now its weekend and im thinking of what to do. If the weather is getting better i might go horseriding outside beijing. Otherwise i think i’ll go to the gym and then tonight go out for some drinks with a friend.

Recently the chinese people seem to be so much more friendly than before. The other day when i was with oliver taking photos in the rain came to people giving us umbrellas. Another night we sat down at some small stone wall outside the subway. Then came a women giving us newspapers to sit on. So nice=) Even the taxi drivers are smiling now!=)

In 4 weeks the olympics starts and im really curious how its gonna be. Everything is about the olympics and they are really trying hard to clean up and make things better here. I’ve heard that they gonna learn the taxi drivers english and also make people queue up…lets se how it goes. But there is also a sad side of it . For instance they destroy a lot of old tradional chinese buildings and houses and forces families to move from their homes. Things are really changing quick here in beijing and i guess if i would leave beijing for a month or so i wouldnt recognise things when im back.

Oliver is on a trip for about 2 weeks. For the moment he’s in the desert somewhere northwest.

Okidoki! Got to leave now!

Puss puss!