Dead!!!
Hello,
This blog seems to be dyeing and not that slowly. So well here I come to save the day... or something. Say the live goes on here as everywhere else. The bad thing is that I'm in the middle of a culture shock so I don't feel it's any fun at all and basically I think very many things in China suck. On the other hand my thesis was on culture shock so I'm well prepared for this (shit). I expect to get over it rather soon.
They say that culture shock is the difference between expectations and reality. I didn't have much expectations but I kind of miss some things and I haven't yet found substitutes for them. Also the friend business is picking up but I haven't really got any close friends yet. This part was wonderful in Barcelona. From the start I had Svana and then I met Tim, Constance, from there it was Adam and from him you met everybody! Here most people are unlike me and it's sad to day that very many people here are very... well... Superficial. Nobody here really cares about politics or has a very real opinion on anything. But I guess I will find people I can talk to and I have found a few.
Many students and teachers here remember Vegard. For example I had to go to English Corner just before and there is always someone there who says "I heard that you are a friend of Vegards, I was his student".
Tomorrow is the National holiday so I get one week of and I'm going to the next province. I don't really care what is there I only want to start knowing places in China and I think especially in the beginning everything is interesting in this country so I'm not worried.
Well, I hope that everybody is well in the west.
Remember one thing I was teaching my students "culture is not better or worse. It's different". Some people even misunderstood that part in BCN.
Later,
Úlli
p.s.
I have made an agreement with the school to get of on the 14th of June so hopefully I can celebrate Icelands National day in America.