Hoy tuvimos una comida hispano-alemana en casa de Antonio, degustación de ibéricos Kartoffelsalat, pan tumaca de Pau y pimientos caramelizados que aportó Rita. Todo muy bueno, me puse... vamos.
Mañana me levantaré otra vez a las seis que pena, se acabaron las vacaciones. Pero bueno, tendré dos días llenos de trabajo pero una buena recompensa el martes por la tarde: una película alemana con mi actriz favorita Franka Potente! Es que por casualidad han organizado una semana alemana en el campus: http://cdhk.tongji.edu.cn/userfiles/2013%20DW%20Programm_web.pdf
Oye, si lees esto podrías darme algún comentario u otro feedback de vez en cuando, es muy unilateral...
Hey, ich würde mich freuen ab und zu einen Kommentar von meinen Lesern zu bekommen, wenn hier überhaupt einer mitliest...
domingo, 5 de mayo de 2013
sábado, 4 de mayo de 2013
Hey, it's saturday, and we had an excellent trip outside Shangai to the seaside! But first I have to tell what I did yesterday.
In the morning, I prepared my monday class, in the afternoon I went with Pau to see the "Urban Planning Exhibition Center". We expected to learn there something about the future of Shanghai, how the city is planned to be etc. But in this sense it was a little bit disappointing. It is an impressive building (como no...) of about 6 floors and we climbed up one after another searching for the interesting things. Mostly there were historic photos, comparisons of before and now, but it seemed that the small history (only 100 years) has been blown up a lot. Finally we got to the floor with the model of Shanghai, that was really impressive! The complete inner ring of Shanghai is build showing existing buildings and approved future buildings up to 2020.
By "night" it's even more impressive:
In the morning, I prepared my monday class, in the afternoon I went with Pau to see the "Urban Planning Exhibition Center". We expected to learn there something about the future of Shanghai, how the city is planned to be etc. But in this sense it was a little bit disappointing. It is an impressive building (como no...) of about 6 floors and we climbed up one after another searching for the interesting things. Mostly there were historic photos, comparisons of before and now, but it seemed that the small history (only 100 years) has been blown up a lot. Finally we got to the floor with the model of Shanghai, that was really impressive! The complete inner ring of Shanghai is build showing existing buildings and approved future buildings up to 2020.By "night" it's even more impressive:
We even found the campus and our guesthouse! Although it is not totally exact...
After that exhausting visit, it was time for a beer! Pau had the idea to show me a terrace where he has been before, with view to the Pudong skyline. Great! But those hotels on the bund are not for poor people... We had a good beer, but also paid a good price, about 8€. More expensive than the dinner we had afterwards in a normal restaurant... But look a the view! It's my favourite photo up to now:
Lust auf mehr?
Na dann! Nach so viel Beton, war uns heute mal nach Natur! Gibt's das hier? Das wollten wir auch wissen. Gut dass es Internet gibt, ich habe herausgefunden, wie man auf die Shanghai vorgelagerte Insel "Chongming" kommt, und so machten wir uns auf die Odyssee. "Grab a bus from the Exit 6 Metro Stop of the
Science and Technology Museum, give them 12rmb, and one hour later you will
arrive in Chen Jia Zhen (
陈家镇) in the east end of Chongming Island." Und es stimmte wirklich! Dort sollte man nun ein Taxi nehmen und zum "Dongtan Wetland Park (东滩湿地公园) fahren, hab mir das zu hause alles minutiös copiert, denn wer weiss wer da noch Englisch spricht... Der Taxifahrer konnte dann auch perfekt meine chinesischen Krakeleien lesen und ab ging's, ne weitere halbe Stunde über die Insel. Aber es gab wirklich grüne Flächen zu sehen, Einzelhäuser, weites Land... unglaublich fast. Der Park war dann super, richtig schön angelegt mit Holzwegen durch Schilfgewässerlandschaft und Blumen, Blumen, Blumen überall, hauptsächlich Mohn und wunderschöne Kornblumen. Wir haben uns ein Fahrrad gemietet, natürlich wiedermal nicht meine Grösse, funktionierte aber und hat total Spass gebracht!
Die Rückfahrt war dann nochmal klasse... Es gab ein Taxe, aber der wollte aus irgendeinem Grunde nicht. Ein anderer Fahrer (kein offizielles Taxi!), der gerade Leute herausgelassen hatte, machte uns dann einen Festpreis. Da es so viel war wie auf dem Hinweg willigten wir ein. Buf, der fuhr noch schlimmer als der erste, immer mitten auf der Linie, überholte Lastwagen wo kein Platz war... und dann kamen wir irgendwo lang wo wir vorher nicht waren! Es sah nicht danach aus, dass er uns hereinlegen wollte, eher, dass er nicht verstanden hatte, wo wir hinwollten. Wollte daher der andere nicht? Dachte er wir fahren ganz nach Shanghai? Nein, wir wollten ja nur wieder zum Bus... Gut, dass ich mein neu erstandenes "Easy peasy chinese Buch" dabei hatte. Wir suchten schnell heraus was Bus heisst, ich zeigte nochmal meine Krakeleien und er sagte Ahhh! Und schlug einen anderen Weg ein. Phu... Dort angekommen geleitete er uns dann noch bis zum Ticktschalter, super nett, wollte aber dafür dann 10 RMB mehr haben :-)
Es war ein super Tag, nur gut, dass ich jemanden für diese Trips begeistern konnte, alleine hätte ich das ja nie gemacht!
viernes, 3 de mayo de 2013
Again I have to catch up with the adventures from yesterday. It was a relaxed day. In the morning I took the bike and went around nearby. I found the "Peace park" and in deed, people are in real peace there:
But it was also very loud in some parts, people dancing to their ghetto blasters in every style, old man with their instruments, playing cards, others playing badminton, going around with rented ships etc. It was astonishing how full the park was on a normal working day in the morning! Most people were old, but some also young.
Afterwards, I found the Carrefour market to by some ingredients for sunday. We'll have lunch at Antonio's house, he invited us spaniards to taste the "Delicias ibericas" I brought him from Madrid. But as I'm only half spanish, I'll add a Kartoffelsalat. :-)
Then I ate in the students canteen and had an awful coffee on a sunny bank on the campus'. Das Photo ist speziell für meine besten Freundinnen :-)
Then I brougth my shoppings home and went to the city center (by metro not by bike ;-) ) to explore a different district, the "French concession". It's as the name says, haha, the part of the town where the French settled down and it still maintains a very european flair. It is quite similar to the "Viso" en Madrid but with much more traffic. Anyway, if I had to live in Shanghai, this would be the place:
Do you see how GREEN Shanghai is? Not only there, I notice it everywhere, they made a great effort to enrich the environment with trees and green zones. Today I learned about it in a visit to the "Urban Planning Exhibition Center". But I'll talk about this tomorrow!
jueves, 2 de mayo de 2013
Whow, one day without writing and already happenend such a lot of things that I don't know where to start and what to select.
But I wanted to tell about our trip. We went to Suzhou (spell: Zuschou), to the west of Shanghai, half an hour with a speed-train like AVE or ICE.Very cheap, one way costs only 5€! Suzhou is famous for its anxient gardens, temples and channels for what it is called the "Venice of Asia". Well... it was not bad, but not what one expects when hearing Venice of Asia... First of all, at our arival we realized soon, that it is also Million-city. It's more, during the whole train-ride we did not leave urbanized area. We arrived at a gigantic train station and had to walk half an hour to get to the centre. Of course, we could have taken a Rikscha or a taxi. The first thing we visited was an eight floors high Pagode, we climbed 200 steps to get the view from the top. The other photo is the entrance, notice the illuminated price-board and the nice tourist-busses which blocked the view for a good photo.
Afterwards we walked a lot to get to the main anxient streets in the old center, where are plenty of canals but frankly not so nice as in Venice or Amsterdam. This photo is the only I could make without tourists or modern buildings in the background. The street which according to the "Lonely Planet Guide" was the nicest, was full of tourist shops, restaurats and people, people, people... OK, it was first of may, everybody was on holidays. On the right you see the famous "dumplings", in this case very sophisticated.
But finally we got to one of the axcient gardens, "The couple's garden", VERY VERY nice! It was not only a garden, but more an estate of sombody wealthy of the whatever dynasty, nearly a labyrinth of houses and gardens. This is exactly what I would like to have when I retire!! :-)
The decorations are all of carved wood and the plantings between rock etc. quite romantic.
We passed quite a long time there, wandering around, not saturating after all the dust and noise of Shanghai.
But then we decided, instead of walking more around and see other gardens or temples of the same style, to go to a neighboured town called Tongli which could not be more than half an hour away, by Taxi of course. We found one soon and the driver understood at the first instant. But then it was quite farther than we thought, and we got into a traffic jam, so at least it was one hour to get there. That was bad, because we had only 1,5 hours to spend as the return also needed one hour and the train was at 18h. But it was worth the effort, this town was really small at least, ok, it was not a town, it was a part of the urban zone we still did not left in all this time and it cost entry! Everything has entry fees, not only the museums and temples, also the garden and tourist areas like that. The streets reminded me a little of "los pueblos blancos de Andalucia", although not as white as them... There were also a lot of people, tourist attractions, theater, but everything more authentic than the other city before. The only pity was, that we did not find the "Sex museum", read here about it: http://www.thechinaguide.com/?action=activity/view&activity_id=172
What we needed urgently after the long taxi trip and after paying again an entrance fee for the village (100 Yuan!) was a good cold beer (píjiǔ [烹])... We got one in a shop and sat on a bank on the center square to let the impressions act on us. I don't mean so much the tourist attractions like the old women dancing with a dragon, but more the people. Here there were much more "hortera"/"schräg" then in Shanghai, gente del pueblo... Look at the orange shoes, the hair cut of the boys (Manga-style) and the old man in pijama!! It's not a joke, its a chinese style, pijama style...
Yesterday I went on a day-trip with Pau. Pau is a very symphatic Architecture Professor from UPC (University of Barcelona). He lived two years in Berlin (!) but that was five years ago and he doesn't want to practice German. Besides Pau, I know now: Rita, Portuguese and also Architecture Professor from UPC (educated in the german school in Lisbon!), John from Miamy, Psychology Professor, his friend Thomas from Hamburg (!), living here already for three years in a multi-country proyect for professors-education and Ronnie from Italy, living in Kopenhagen but son of an american father and an israeli mother, he has three passports! Really, it is always SO interesting to meet people on those trips, but here it seems that the strangest of the strange have come together (me included, of course...)
But I wanted to tell about our trip. We went to Suzhou (spell: Zuschou), to the west of Shanghai, half an hour with a speed-train like AVE or ICE.Very cheap, one way costs only 5€! Suzhou is famous for its anxient gardens, temples and channels for what it is called the "Venice of Asia". Well... it was not bad, but not what one expects when hearing Venice of Asia... First of all, at our arival we realized soon, that it is also Million-city. It's more, during the whole train-ride we did not leave urbanized area. We arrived at a gigantic train station and had to walk half an hour to get to the centre. Of course, we could have taken a Rikscha or a taxi. The first thing we visited was an eight floors high Pagode, we climbed 200 steps to get the view from the top. The other photo is the entrance, notice the illuminated price-board and the nice tourist-busses which blocked the view for a good photo.Afterwards we walked a lot to get to the main anxient streets in the old center, where are plenty of canals but frankly not so nice as in Venice or Amsterdam. This photo is the only I could make without tourists or modern buildings in the background. The street which according to the "Lonely Planet Guide" was the nicest, was full of tourist shops, restaurats and people, people, people... OK, it was first of may, everybody was on holidays. On the right you see the famous "dumplings", in this case very sophisticated.But finally we got to one of the axcient gardens, "The couple's garden", VERY VERY nice! It was not only a garden, but more an estate of sombody wealthy of the whatever dynasty, nearly a labyrinth of houses and gardens. This is exactly what I would like to have when I retire!! :-)The decorations are all of carved wood and the plantings between rock etc. quite romantic.
We passed quite a long time there, wandering around, not saturating after all the dust and noise of Shanghai.But then we decided, instead of walking more around and see other gardens or temples of the same style, to go to a neighboured town called Tongli which could not be more than half an hour away, by Taxi of course. We found one soon and the driver understood at the first instant. But then it was quite farther than we thought, and we got into a traffic jam, so at least it was one hour to get there. That was bad, because we had only 1,5 hours to spend as the return also needed one hour and the train was at 18h. But it was worth the effort, this town was really small at least, ok, it was not a town, it was a part of the urban zone we still did not left in all this time and it cost entry! Everything has entry fees, not only the museums and temples, also the garden and tourist areas like that. The streets reminded me a little of "los pueblos blancos de Andalucia", although not as white as them... There were also a lot of people, tourist attractions, theater, but everything more authentic than the other city before. The only pity was, that we did not find the "Sex museum", read here about it: http://www.thechinaguide.com/?action=activity/view&activity_id=172martes, 30 de abril de 2013
Yesterday we had 27ºC and humidity, today 18º and rain... so a wonderful day to visit the Shanghai museum. If there hadn't been so many people...
But anyway, I have time! After half an hour making the cue I got an audioguide and passed the 4 stories of the museum. What to see? Well, skulptures of stone and bronce, calligraphy, Jade, paintings, clothes from ethnic minorities, mints, furniture and of course ceramics and porcellain of different Dynasties. What I missed was to learn something about the history in the sense of understanding which dynasty was when etc. but that was not easy to see. All was ordered according to the mentioned themes, but not according to ages. Anyway, quite interesting what they knew here, and much earlier than in western countries!
lunes, 29 de abril de 2013
Seit gestern bin ich stolze Besitzerin eines FAHRRADS!! Da muss ich um die halbe Welt reisen, um mich endlich mal wieder wie früher ganz normal mit dem Fahhrrad durch die Strassen zu bewegen :-) Naja, ganz normal nicht, man fährt halt wie man kann, Zickzack um den Fussgängern auszuweichen, über die Strasse wenn man kann (ist ja ganz egal ob es grün ist, die Autos fahren einen trotzdem um, hier gilt das Gesetz des Stärkeren!). Ist aber echt klasse, jetzt brauche ich vom Guesthouse zum Bus nur 5-10 min statt 20 min laufen.
Das ganze kam so: Xuefeng meinte eh ich bräuchte ein Fahhrrad, und er würde mal einen fragen, der welche verkauft. Gestern rief er dann an, derTyp hätte eins für mich, für 200 Yuan, am Ende kauft er es mir dann für 120 wieder ab! Also wie ne Miete von 80. Jetzt dürft ihr mal rechnen, 8 Yuan sind ca. 1€, na? genau, das Rad hat nur 25€ gekostet und wenn ich's wieder verkaufe nur 10€, da musste ich doch zugreifen! So einfach war's dann aber doch nicht, dass mir eines "passt", habe halt keine Chinesengrösse. Ausserdem waren das alles Rostlauben an denen die Bremse nicht funktioniert usw. Aber dann war doch ein akzeptables dabei, ich sitze darauf noch ein bisschen krumm, aber es reicht, so sieht's aus:
Siento que cuento esto en Alemán pero los Españoles no entendéis de bicis, que ya pensáis que es peligroso ir en Madrid ;-)
Bueno, desde hoy estoy de vacaciones hasta el domingo!! No me lo creo todavía. Lo que pasa es que el uno de mayo está libre y para tener un "puente" de tres días pasan el lunes y martes al sábado y domingo, con lo cual se trabaja siete días para tener tres libres... Así que di clase ayer y anteayer y para esta semana solo me quedaría una clase el viernes, la cuál he movido hábilmente al martes que viene :-) Todavía no sé como aprovechar todo este tiempo, pero al menos no tengo que preocuparme y si resulta algo interesante hasta puedo hacer un viajecito. Me han sugerido bastantes cosas, pero todavía no sé adonde. De momento, hoy he hecho sightseeing con Antonio y familia y mañana quería ir con Pau (un arquitecto que está por aquí) a Suzhou, una ciudad con muchos jardines, pero hay lluvia anunciada así que lo dejamos para el miércoles.
Aquí algunas impresiones de hoy:
Ein Tempel in der Zone des Yuyuan Gartens
Kontraste
Las guapas de Shanghai
Hier gibts frischen Fisch!
para mi chiqui :-)
Das ganze kam so: Xuefeng meinte eh ich bräuchte ein Fahhrrad, und er würde mal einen fragen, der welche verkauft. Gestern rief er dann an, derTyp hätte eins für mich, für 200 Yuan, am Ende kauft er es mir dann für 120 wieder ab! Also wie ne Miete von 80. Jetzt dürft ihr mal rechnen, 8 Yuan sind ca. 1€, na? genau, das Rad hat nur 25€ gekostet und wenn ich's wieder verkaufe nur 10€, da musste ich doch zugreifen! So einfach war's dann aber doch nicht, dass mir eines "passt", habe halt keine Chinesengrösse. Ausserdem waren das alles Rostlauben an denen die Bremse nicht funktioniert usw. Aber dann war doch ein akzeptables dabei, ich sitze darauf noch ein bisschen krumm, aber es reicht, so sieht's aus:
Siento que cuento esto en Alemán pero los Españoles no entendéis de bicis, que ya pensáis que es peligroso ir en Madrid ;-)
Bueno, desde hoy estoy de vacaciones hasta el domingo!! No me lo creo todavía. Lo que pasa es que el uno de mayo está libre y para tener un "puente" de tres días pasan el lunes y martes al sábado y domingo, con lo cual se trabaja siete días para tener tres libres... Así que di clase ayer y anteayer y para esta semana solo me quedaría una clase el viernes, la cuál he movido hábilmente al martes que viene :-) Todavía no sé como aprovechar todo este tiempo, pero al menos no tengo que preocuparme y si resulta algo interesante hasta puedo hacer un viajecito. Me han sugerido bastantes cosas, pero todavía no sé adonde. De momento, hoy he hecho sightseeing con Antonio y familia y mañana quería ir con Pau (un arquitecto que está por aquí) a Suzhou, una ciudad con muchos jardines, pero hay lluvia anunciada así que lo dejamos para el miércoles.
Aquí algunas impresiones de hoy:
Ein Tempel in der Zone des Yuyuan Gartens
Kontraste
Las guapas de ShanghaiHier gibts frischen Fisch!para mi chiqui :-)
sábado, 27 de abril de 2013
Finally yesterday I could not write in the blog, toooo tired after half day exploring the downtown city and afterwards goint to the campus and giving class till 19:30h. The pity is that after those evening classes I have to take the bus at 20:30h so I am home at 21:30h. Yesterday I also needed to go to bed early because today I got up at a 5:45h to take the bus at 6:45h just to arrive on time for my class at 8h. Now I just arrived from the evening class, I prepared my evening green tee, so I'm ready to tell you finally about what I saw yesterday in the Shanghai city!!!
But first I want to tell you about the metro system. It is high technology top standard I would say. The ticktets are all equipped with RFID and recyclable, to get out you have to stick it into a slot to open the barrier. In the stations, it is super-easy to see which side you have to take, the way the metro will made is colored, and the way it already passed is grey. The platforms are absolutely safe with transparent walls and doors that open when the train stops. And inside the cabins you have LED markers on the line, green for passed, red not yet reached and orange for the current position.
I went 6 stops with line 10 from Tongji University to Nanjing Road, THE shopping street. But no to see the shopping area, first I went straight to the Suzhou Creek, a side arm from Huangpu River. I followed it and had minute by minute a better view to the incredibly impressive Pudong-Skyline.
Then I reached the part where the story of Shanghai began and where you have the best look at Pudong (it's the financial district with airport etc.), called "The Bund". This is the part of the Huangpu River where the merchandise was unshiped about only 100 years ago and where today is a beautiful tourist promenade with view to the river and the opposite waterside. There is a tunnel for tourists but as it costs about 10€ I didn't go, maybe another day.
And very very very very beautiful are also the flower arrangements everywhere. The city itself is surprisingly green with many trees in the streets, but additionally they plant flowers everywhere, on the ground, on the walls and even on the traffic lights!
Well after a while on the Bund I walked through the city, the main shopping street which is like any else over the world and I also went inside one of those inside markets where everybody has a 2x2 m shop.
Here you have also some impressions, I loved the pink shop :-)
But first I want to tell you about the metro system. It is high technology top standard I would say. The ticktets are all equipped with RFID and recyclable, to get out you have to stick it into a slot to open the barrier. In the stations, it is super-easy to see which side you have to take, the way the metro will made is colored, and the way it already passed is grey. The platforms are absolutely safe with transparent walls and doors that open when the train stops. And inside the cabins you have LED markers on the line, green for passed, red not yet reached and orange for the current position.I went 6 stops with line 10 from Tongji University to Nanjing Road, THE shopping street. But no to see the shopping area, first I went straight to the Suzhou Creek, a side arm from Huangpu River. I followed it and had minute by minute a better view to the incredibly impressive Pudong-Skyline.
Then I reached the part where the story of Shanghai began and where you have the best look at Pudong (it's the financial district with airport etc.), called "The Bund". This is the part of the Huangpu River where the merchandise was unshiped about only 100 years ago and where today is a beautiful tourist promenade with view to the river and the opposite waterside. There is a tunnel for tourists but as it costs about 10€ I didn't go, maybe another day. And very very very very beautiful are also the flower arrangements everywhere. The city itself is surprisingly green with many trees in the streets, but additionally they plant flowers everywhere, on the ground, on the walls and even on the traffic lights! Well after a while on the Bund I walked through the city, the main shopping street which is like any else over the world and I also went inside one of those inside markets where everybody has a 2x2 m shop. Here you have also some impressions, I loved the pink shop :-)
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