Month: June 2012

A Rather Busy Day

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One of the fun things about my life in China is that sometimes you can have rather busy days. Like today. Today, I was invited to a wedding of two colleagues – so I was out this morning and for lunch. Today, I also had to do a lot of packing, since I’m moving, and I’ll be traveling, too. Today, I also wanted to go and play tennis for the last time in several months. Today, I went to the foreign-faculty-end-of-the-year banquet for dinner. And today, I have to go to bed early, since tomorrow I’ll have to head out at 6 am, and I’m planning to use my travel time to work on some more assignments – so no late night and sleeping on the airplane. Now, the fun about this is that it’s actually possible! I can do all of these things in one day, and not even feel stressed about it. I guess I could “blame” that on life in China as well, because I know at the end of the day …

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How Things Change …

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Well, you know how dearly I love me that little mountain we get to go to every once in a while. I usually tell you all about it, whenever I’ve had another chance to get away from town. And we like this mountain for specific reasons. For example, the fact that only few people find their way there. Or that you don’t have to pay money to go for a hike. Or that the trails used to be all natural trails – no stairs, no pavements. Used to be … Because now, there are stairs. Now, there are paved walkways. Now there are more and more visitors crowding (and unfortunately littering) the place. And my little heart is broken. Because it looks like soon our mountain, the only place where we could actually find a little nature around town, will be just another tourist spot in China – overrun with people; occupied by sellers who want to make business; and with paved walkways that take away all the fun of hiking up rocky trails. Sometimes I simply …