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China: Studies – Large Moving

Published: 2.5.2015
End of June was about leaves. Since May, my friends had been leaving. Finals were coming and those who didn’t need any confirmation of their study stays and exams passed just packed their luggage and boarded the plane. Other didn’t visit schools because their relatives, and friends arrived. Dormitories emptied.

When even my crazy Canadian roommate moved out I was relieved. But not for long. In couple of day, I would have a visit. I passed by reception almost as a secret agent every time to not to face questions when I would pack my things.

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And then the D-Day came. Girls were on their way to Helsinki where they would transfer to a plane to Beijing. Meanwhile, I was sitting thinking about my year in Beijing and pondered how many books had I bought, and other stuff I couldn’t leave there. When Vietnamese nuns were moving out of the dorms I couldn’t comprehend why they left so many things in the corridor or bathroom. Perhaps, they wanted to gift it to all those “aunties” cleaning there. And BAM! On the D-Day I also put my share on the pile. I had simply too many things. I desided that three T-shirts are enough for travels, and others would be left behind

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Give back keys, getting my deposit back – “You have to go to another office.” – and it was done. I stood there with a coffer and other bags at the reception trying to estimate my stamina. Can I get to the B dorm without dying of tiredness and loosing half of my stuff?

I barely made it to campus gates. Going by bus was out of question. I waved at taxi. At first my driver was confused but I helped him, heard couple of life stories, moral lectures – if I hadn’t packed the books to the coffer, it would have been lighter.

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Holding my breath a sneak to B dormitories. I had realized I became a homeless person in China. That awkward feeling was gone with my happiness over arrival of my friends. We picked them up and drove them to hostel set in traditional Beijing neighborhood. They were really tired after a long journey from the Czech Republic. But they were incredibly curious about so many new things they hadn’t seen before. In narrow streets, smell of food and hard-to-identify fragrances mixed. Children waved at us and a motorbike occasionally almost killed us. And the heat was incredible and it seemed to multiply. T and P looked liked they had enough for the day. They were about to have really packed schedule next month. Beijing greeted them in their own way. Smog, noise, but also smiles of passersby. A month before them, was about to learn them to stand in a bus on one leg, or to fall asleep with a small Chinese on their lap.

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About our acclimatization in Beijing will be the next part.

 

Text/photo: Hana Bašová

 



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After while, during our search for tulou 土楼 we went off the tourist-luring village with never ending music. Chinese tourists took pictures of each other wearing traditional and nontraditional clothes rented for horrible money. All of a sudden, everything went quiet around us. We were approaching local hills on a narrow road.

China: Studies - Hangzhou II: Unease at Serene Lake
Published: 28.2.2015
We were returning quite disgruntled from the village of Longjing 龙井. The intrusive lady reminded us again that we are still tourists in China – and given my face, I still will be one.

China: Studies – Learning in China
Published: 18.4.2015
It hasn’t been so long ago when I boarded the plane to Helsinki. I was thinking how I would spend a night before leaving for Beijing. Suddenly, I realized that my stay in China is coming to an end. It was one of these moments when I felt nostalgia and casted my mind back.

China: At Studies: In the Lion’s Mouth
Published: 18.10.2014
First registration procedure was successfully done. I had a Chinese bank account, submitted about eight passport photos, and other required documents, and while tired I read through the instructions in my room. When I found out that there is a difference between the Chinese and English version, I decided to trust the original, in Chinese.

China: Studies - Christmas
Published: 17.1.2015
Christmas is the time of remembrance. One remembers passed year, how and with who she spent Christmas and how it was. I couldn’t help myself from such assessment when I saw grey snowless streets. It remined me of my first Christmas outside home, Christmas in Chengdu 成都.

China: Studies – Scattered Tea and Nasty Declension
Published: 15.11.2014
„You study Chinese? So you can read scattered tea?“ „Chinese? Ping Pong?“ „Do you have skew eyes from eating all those rice already?“

China: Studies - Xiamen II: When the Trip Starts with a Funeral...
Published: 14.3.2015
Before I traveled to China, I had noticed weird mostly roundish buildings on various ad posters. I didn’t understand why would anyone build something like this.

China: Studies – From Shanghai to Hangzhou
Published: 14.2.2015
When we said farewell to Suzhou 苏州, the train took us to the famous Shanghai 上海. Shanghai is the name everybody things of when asked if they can think of a Chinese city. Once it used to be a small fishermen village.

China: Studies – As many people you meet...
Published: 13.12.2014
I know the old proverb starts bit differently, yet I hold to the opinion that this tweak has some truth to it. At some places I think about this proverb more often. At some places even every day. Perhaps you already realized that by the latter I mean China.

China: Studies - (Not)Useful Jobs
Published: 11.4.2015
I am of those people who cannot enjoy shopping. Mostly I have this feeling that the time spent finding something could we spent much more efficiently. When I decide to go somewhere shopping I need time.

China: Studying: "Drink more hot water!"
Published: 11.10.2014
In couple of articles already I mentioned the same topic – hot water drinking. Since young age I have been frightened to drink hot beverages when ill. It is easier and tastier to use just syrup with water, I had been always saying. And then I left to China.

China: Studies – Niujie: There Are Mosques Even in Beijing
Published: 1.11.2014
I have written about one of Chinese minorities, the people of Hui (回族) in one of my previous articles. I praised their cuisine and their kindness and knowledge about the place of my origin.

China: Studying – Back on the Scene
Published: 27.9.2014
When before the departure from Chengdu I decided to final packing of my things, I found out that I have a lot more than a few things.

China: Studies – Back to School for a While – When Friend Comes from Afar...
Published: 27.12.2014
For as long as I had travelled in China, my main reason was studying the Chinese language. As more and more people ask me how learning Chinese in China is going I am going to spend some time explaining how it is.

China: Studies – When a Friend Comes from Afar
Published: 25.4.2015
... is that joyful? Already in one of my past articles I quoted the first sentence from Analects by Confucius. To be honest I thought of it very often. Prior my departure to China almost every other person asked me: „When may I arrive? You know I wouldn’t need a guide when you are there...“

China: Studies – There is Too Many People, What You Can Do
Published: 25.10.2014
Certainly there are lists of the most used words in any language. We learn what words we use the most in our mother tongue. We do not wonder as those are mostly words that are logically the most common as well.

China: Studies – Trip to See the Beauties of the South: Preparations and First Moments in Suzhou
Published: 24.1.2015
It wasn’t bad in Beijing. Yet sometimes a time comes that one just want to go somewhere else. Anywhere. The break of the first May was coming and we had already forgotten how crazy it is to travel in China, especially when even others have holidays. But this time we were bit smarter. We learned how to buy train tickets on the Internet.

China: Studies - Cuandixia: Runnig Away from Beijing
Published: 22.11.2014
It is true that I base my articles on my experiences and remarks of my friends, yet I have this feeling that everyone gets to the point when he needs to leave the big noisy city for fresh air in the countryside.

China: Studies - Xiamen III: Bad Dogs and Good People
Published: 21.3.2015
Our stay in Yunyongyao云永谣 commenced with a funeral, not particularly traditional way to begin one’s trip. Most of the locals took part in it. Some right in the procession, others just watched from afar. Soon, however, cracking and music ended. Only streets covered with red papers could tell the story.

China: Studies- Hangzhou: Trip to the Dragon Well
Published: 21.2.2015
Upon our difficult arrival at Hangzhou 杭州 we had crammed schedule ahead. Right in the morning, we went to explore how to get to our other goal the village of Longjing 龙井 that is famous for its tea plantations.

China: Studies – Terminus
Published: 20.12.2014
„To terminus? What will you do there? There is nothing! “

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