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Chinese Autumn by Moritz
Moritz came to Omeida with an expectation to know more about Chinese language, culture, and politics. After 2-week study with us, he has been immersed deeply into this beautiful land. His blog: http://moritzunddiewelt.wordpress.com/
期 望 Expectation
After about 48 hours packing, printing documents, drinking beers and leaving whatever I made in the last days at home, I have it now, after all, already managed to Mainz, 180 km away from home, and for tomorrow more than 9,100 km journey is before me.
I'm not sure yet what I'm most strained on. I'm just tremendously excited. Tense, tense, tense. In all strange countries I've seen so far, China is still the most outlandish. Now I finally throw myself body and soul into the strangeness. I'm also curious why, how strange to me all this will be in a few weeks and months. Can I settle myself there, or there will always be strange?
Farewell, her smooth halls / Smooth Men! Smooth women! / In the mountains I will climb, / Laughing look down on you.
- Heine, "Harz Journey"
How it looks. Nothing more to add. Let's go!
莫 毅 Mò Yi
With the name that's a bit tricky here. I keep getting told that my name you cannot remember? Okay, there is already a certain accumulation of consonants with it. The throat-R and the sharp Z, and the silent T in addition confused. O and the closed and the open one after another I finally also prepare most non-Chinese difficulties. Honestly, I've met outside the German language area, none currently "Moritz" could actually pronounce correctly. And also within the ... oh, never mind that
And so I reversed to get a Chinese name also missed yesterday of my language partners, because they failed gloriously in the debate by Moritz. May I introduce, I'm Mò Yi. This is not just a derivative of Moritz Ehl, but at the same time also has a flattering meaning. "Mò" is a common family name (one or the other might know the Nobel Prize last year, Mo Yan), "yi", however, is also popular with Chinese parents, because it means "steadfast" or "determined".
And so the hissing, spluttering, giggling pronunciation tests are a thing of the past, I am now the steadfast Mon, Mò Yi.
聚 餐 take yourself to dinner
On the weekend we always go out to dinner in the city. There are plenty of street vendors, food stalls, restaurants, which does not cost too much, fills you up with no trouble, and usually it tastes good too.
My highlights so far: The Fake meatball in vegetarian restaurant, which is consisted of some wheat protein and in the mouth actually tastes like meat, The Steamed Dumpling anyway, and especially the Sichuan cuisine on Saturday. The hot-pot tofu has driven me though the tears, but it was perfectly composed, well seasoned, and the bottom line is so incredibly great that you're willing to ignore the rats in the kitchen.
After a few beers in the round, preferably outside on the canal, and I'm completely at peace with the world.
All in all, very relaxed and very delicious, so a weekend it was. And because I'm a vegetarian anyway, I do not even need me to worry if I could just to try chicken feet or water snake, which makes it even more relaxing.
漓 江 The Li River
The Li Jiang flows through the Karst landscape in Guilin which is the epitome of a beautiful landscape in China." Guilin and Yangshuo are also on the Li River, but especially nice to be the section between Xingping and Yangdi. Therefore, we set out on the last Saturday in this area.We actually walk twenty kilometers through the epitome of a beautiful landscape. The river flows greenish and sluggish before him, all around the Karst Mountains towering into bizarre formations, and the sky pops the tropical sun. Of Xingping it goes upriver into the scenic area. Tourist boats and bamboo rafts cruise along the Li River wide. On the bank grow bananas, oranges, and bamboo. One of elderly women constantly tries to sell fruits, or follow our group and playing totally unintentionally the sign, hoping for a tip.
Again and again, the valley narrows, then the path is narrow and leads rather than path through the forest. Or it widens, and then you can climb down to the river and admire the mountains from the bottom. Three times we have to take the ferry. But not once the whole group boards the boat - the water was so inviting wrought that we unceremoniously jump from investors in and crawl to the other side. At thirty degrees a refreshing thing and even if we get caught up quite well over the seaweed, it does make a lot of fun, we finally splashing here in the epitome of a beautiful landscape.
We take the bus back when we arrived at Yangdi, go eat together and then have a wonderful day at Monkey Jane's Roof Top Bar with a drink overlooking the illuminated mountains of Yangshuo.My homework for Monday is to describe my weekend in Chinese. Can not be that hard, after this trip.
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