Qingdao

went to Qingdao last weekend, had a great time there. apart from the (admittedly quite dirty, but I went in anyways) ocean, this was my favorite part! I´ll try that when I´m back home: "2 kilos Wieselburger (Austrian beer), please!"

my world

create your own visited country map

quiz night@bar blu

another night of prooving that our brains don´t work properly...no, just kidding, we did pretty good this time! but our team had grown too...some special guests from Canada were flown in

 
 
  

6 pack? 10 pak!

who wants a 6-pack anyways? why not make it 10? how can you not love China?  

gas?

this is supposed to be a gas-'production site', doesn't look like this at all to me, but whatever - I'm thinking Homer Simpson when I see this....on the way to a little village 90 km west of BJ
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Performance of the China Disabled People's Troupe

UNESCO got tickets to another free perfomance, this time much better (well, that´s not hard) than Kungyu opera. got two tickets, one cost as much as my monthly salary - should have gotten more and sold them ;)
definitely worth seeing, but I don´t know if I´d like to pay that much for it  
 
 
  

Yunnan

here are some pictures taken in Yunnan, description and more pics coming...just one thing: it's BEAUTIFUL down there! (apart from the viper I saw) 
 
 
  

Chengde

no, this is not Tibet, it´s Chengde, 4 hours from Beijing, just went there for a day a couple of days ago...nice trip! HREF='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7625/2906/320/DSC01189.jpg'> 
 
 
  

Kofi Annan in Beijing

on May 22nd (yes, I´m behind as always, but have my Yunnan excuse), Kofi Annan met with the China-based UN-staff. He even shook my hand. quite something, isn´t it? there should be a picture with me and him, but that was taken with my other camera, have to scan that once I have it
 
 
  

all the pictures below are supposed to be together with the Aivee post, but I honestly just posted them and thought they´d be together

Sha, Aliyou, Guilia 

me, Aivee, Elena 

me and Jenson 

Jenson, Aivee, Elena 

Solange doing her version of karaoke 

Aivee

the great thing about living in different places is meeting wonderful people from all over the world. the sad thing about it is that it is a constant coming and going...this week, Aivee left us :(
had a great farewell-dinner at cafe sambal and the bed and then a night/morning of karaoke. have fun in Borneo, say hi to the orang utans! hope to see you soon!