Can anyone recommend good Avengers fan fic? I had a hard time finding really good fic, most is pretty cray-cray ( Read more... )

I had a really fun academic weekend. I had a 3-day-seminar about China and war. It covered all the conflicts China had ever played a part in, including Tibet and Taiwan. Since China's relations to taiwan are kind of my favourite topic, it was especially cool to have a Taiwanese speaker, a person from their consulate, although it's not an official ( Read more... )

I went to get a massage yesterday. koalathebear took me to a nice place and I had an hour and half thai oil massage. I really wished we had affordable massages in Germany! Sooo lovely ( Read more... )

I spent an okay week-end in Chengde. The weather was lovely and the temples and gardens very nice and calm. Well, the temples were also very impressive ( Read more... )

I heard the wonderful story of Mao`s Mangoes today at lunch ( Read more... )

They already turned the heaters in our apartment off and the last few days it was so cold I was constantly shivering and couldn't sit on the couch without all my blankets over me ( Read more... )

I just got home from work and it felt really good to be back. Even though the people are really nice about me not showing up there very often, I still felt bad this last week for not showing up at allBut I did have a week made of awesome ( Read more... )

Today I bought a whole bunch of DVDs: Nacho Libre, The King And I, To Kill A Mockingbird, Alice Im Wunderland, Happy Feet, Susi und Strolchi, the first season of Prison Break and CinderellaSadly all I could think of during the movie was how smelly her feet must be if she was dancing all night in glass slippers. :D ( Read more... )

For everyone that doesn't read my other blog or can't read German, I arrived safely in Beijing last Monday. My first evening here was absolute hell, I was homesick and culture-shocked, all alone in my apartment and couldn't sleep all night ( Read more... )

This weekend changed my mood about china. I used to be really cool about going and a little *sheesh* about how sad and worried people are, but now reality started to sink in and suddenly I am all excited flutter and nervousness :D ( Read more... )