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Yeah, marks Got a little burn on my tummy 2 weeks ago, the scar kinda left place to a 2cm x 2cm light brown mark just at the lower side of the sternum, i think it's a permanent scar now >_> Ah well, at least it's just in the middle, it's symetrical :P
And now comes the sad part : it's christmas it's new year
After spending my summer holliday to work and to miss all my friends, after spending the German Convention at school doing exams, it's time to spend christmas and new year at school, studying for my exams, while everyone is off, enjoying time with friends and family. Seriously, one day, I'm gonna screw it all.
I feel a bit down now and I think I'll feel down until I come back in belgium. From now on, everyone is off, everyone is gonna spend christmas with family and new year with friends, here it's cold but it doesn't snow, we have school, and my trip in china is over soon (about 20 days left before I have to come back). I didn't post much in the journal lately. For many reasons actually. I always forget to take pics, I'm too lazy to write, or sometimes just too busy.
But well, I'll be glad to talk to you about everything that happened here. Well, I'm not even sure I'd be able to talk about it all, there's just so much to say. Well, you can stil find me on MSN meanwhile ^^
For the moar stuff, work has been killing me. The teacher always gives us a listening comprehension at the end of the class. We write what she sais and the give her the notes back, but she actually just reads the text we had just seen, so I wrote it in my notebook and never gave it to her because I could just correct it myself by turning the page
Now she tells me that some % of the final marks will be about the homeworks....which I never gave her. I explained her my situation. She was very understanding, but she said she still needed the homework, but that I still had time to give them to her, she'd correct them for me. So I had to spend a whole weekend rewriting 3 months worth of homeworks on a separate sheet of paper x.x
We went further into our lessons though. We often go into debates in Chinese in our class. Some are very interesting but I don't really feel like sharing Chineses opinions on politics, so I didn't post them here, though one of my friends today asked me why were there so many orphans in China, it made me think about a debate we had, so I thought I'd share it with you.
We saw a text about the elderly and retiring. The teacher started explaining us that in China, it's actually your children that have to take care of you after you've retired. The State actually doesn't give a damn, it's all the offspring's work. So after hearing that, I asked her "then why are there so many orphans in China? Wouldn't it be a good idea to adopt children? There would be less homeless children, they'd have a family, and people who can't have children still would be taken care of after retirement"
the teacher looked at me like if she had just noticed I was an Alien from another solar system and explained me that it was obvious that I was talking nonsense, why would your child take care of you if he's not of your own blood? He wouldn't owe anything to his foster father and would probabely let him find a way to survive after his retirement without caring a single bit
That seemed a bit weird to me, so I asked her "what about girls then, don't they have to leave the family after marriage?" and yes, she told me that once the daughter is married, she leaves the house to go and live with her husband. That's why in small villages, farmers try to have a son instead of a daughter, and if they have a daughter, they try again and again until they finally have a son. Some people end up with very big families that way, but that's the only way they have to not be left for dead (no videogame jokes plz, kthxbye) after retirement.
There was one question I wanted to ask then. "So, that's why there are so many more men than women in China? I heard that with the politic of the Only Child (the fact that chinese people are too many, so the government only allows one children per couple), people used to "kill" their daughters after they were born, to make sure nobody knew they had had a child, so they could try again until they had a boy. Many people did that, and now there are way many more guys than girls in China". Of course, I didn't ask, but I really wanted to. The teacher already seemed quite pissed. I think that political debates aren't really something you do often in China, especially when it is about saying that what they do is wrong...
It was one of the very first political debates we had in the class though. We had a few more since then but I tried not to ask too many questions, they seem veeeeeeeery picky about it.
And now comes the sad part : it's christmas it's new year
After spending my summer holliday to work and to miss all my friends, after spending the German Convention at school doing exams, it's time to spend christmas and new year at school, studying for my exams, while everyone is off, enjoying time with friends and family. Seriously, one day, I'm gonna screw it all.
I feel a bit down now and I think I'll feel down until I come back in belgium. From now on, everyone is off, everyone is gonna spend christmas with family and new year with friends, here it's cold but it doesn't snow, we have school, and my trip in china is over soon (about 20 days left before I have to come back). I didn't post much in the journal lately. For many reasons actually. I always forget to take pics, I'm too lazy to write, or sometimes just too busy.
But well, I'll be glad to talk to you about everything that happened here. Well, I'm not even sure I'd be able to talk about it all, there's just so much to say. Well, you can stil find me on MSN meanwhile ^^
For the moar stuff, work has been killing me. The teacher always gives us a listening comprehension at the end of the class. We write what she sais and the give her the notes back, but she actually just reads the text we had just seen, so I wrote it in my notebook and never gave it to her because I could just correct it myself by turning the page
Now she tells me that some % of the final marks will be about the homeworks....which I never gave her. I explained her my situation. She was very understanding, but she said she still needed the homework, but that I still had time to give them to her, she'd correct them for me. So I had to spend a whole weekend rewriting 3 months worth of homeworks on a separate sheet of paper x.x
We went further into our lessons though. We often go into debates in Chinese in our class. Some are very interesting but I don't really feel like sharing Chineses opinions on politics, so I didn't post them here, though one of my friends today asked me why were there so many orphans in China, it made me think about a debate we had, so I thought I'd share it with you.
We saw a text about the elderly and retiring. The teacher started explaining us that in China, it's actually your children that have to take care of you after you've retired. The State actually doesn't give a damn, it's all the offspring's work. So after hearing that, I asked her "then why are there so many orphans in China? Wouldn't it be a good idea to adopt children? There would be less homeless children, they'd have a family, and people who can't have children still would be taken care of after retirement"
the teacher looked at me like if she had just noticed I was an Alien from another solar system and explained me that it was obvious that I was talking nonsense, why would your child take care of you if he's not of your own blood? He wouldn't owe anything to his foster father and would probabely let him find a way to survive after his retirement without caring a single bit
That seemed a bit weird to me, so I asked her "what about girls then, don't they have to leave the family after marriage?" and yes, she told me that once the daughter is married, she leaves the house to go and live with her husband. That's why in small villages, farmers try to have a son instead of a daughter, and if they have a daughter, they try again and again until they finally have a son. Some people end up with very big families that way, but that's the only way they have to not be left for dead (no videogame jokes plz, kthxbye) after retirement.
There was one question I wanted to ask then. "So, that's why there are so many more men than women in China? I heard that with the politic of the Only Child (the fact that chinese people are too many, so the government only allows one children per couple), people used to "kill" their daughters after they were born, to make sure nobody knew they had had a child, so they could try again until they had a boy. Many people did that, and now there are way many more guys than girls in China". Of course, I didn't ask, but I really wanted to. The teacher already seemed quite pissed. I think that political debates aren't really something you do often in China, especially when it is about saying that what they do is wrong...
It was one of the very first political debates we had in the class though. We had a few more since then but I tried not to ask too many questions, they seem veeeeeeeery picky about it.