A small update

Being a student at BLCU and in Beijing is fantastic.

All the people you are meeting, the great food you eating ( or cook-me and Yilin are getting better and better in cooking!), enjoying the spare time you have with friends, doing homework in one of the many cafés on campus or in Wudaokou, shopping cheap and nice things, biking around (if you have a bike), walking through the many Hutongs, and so much more!

Right now the weather is lovely in Beijing, sunny and 15-20 degrees celcius. I love to ride around on my electric bike ( btw, I finally got new keys), feeling the wind blowing in my face, being faster than all the walking and bicycling people, not worrying about traffic lights or traffic rules..

But the good weather will not last for long, because the sandstorms are coming, along with its horror. Beijingers says that people can´t go out, or drive, because they can not see anything. In the recent years, it has become much better because of tree plantings, but still, the sand from the deserts in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia is still there and coming closer and closer to Beijing. And after the sandstorms, the heat and humidity will come and kill us all with overwhelming hot weather. So I´m enjoying the weather we have now to its fullest!

This semester has been good so far, and I have actually been studying and doing all my homework. I got new teachers and new classmates, and they are all really nice and fun. And I´m surprised that so many got Chinese girlfriends in my class! (3!) I was asking my Australian classmate the other day how he and his Chinese girlfriend met, and before he even got to answer, I jokingly said : in Sensation?  (a club in Wudaokou), and my other classmate was laughing so hard.. because it was true. Well, the best way to learn a language is in bed, as Ricardo´s father told him..

Speaking about love and Sensation, there are so many new couples on campus! And even my flatmates have some romances going on. It must be the feeling of spring coming :) I guess Sensation is a place for love seeking people to go to. I have a few friends who found their girlfriend/boyfriend there, and some are still together.. Looking at all the couples kissing and hugging around, I envy them a lot. Being apart from my boyfriend is hard, because we lived together and did everything together.  Luckily I´m going to INDIA(!!!!) tomorrow to visit him for two weeks!

I also welcomed two mini turtles and one beautiful rabbit into our family! 

Me and Yilin´s cooking skills are getting so good!! 

But even though our cooking rocks, burgers at Bluefrog at Mondays is a must.. :) 

Marte visiting me in Beijing! In two days we visited 6 different tourist attractions :o  

After Marte left, Runa came. She visited me for 10 days, so more time to check out Beijiing :)

I love seeing a blue sky. We live in the 7th floor of this building.

My two baby turtles. The darker one is the male, lighter one the female. 

My cute bunny. The race is called Belgian Mango Rabbit

And we call her Mango, because when we got her she was the size of a mango, and her nice color reminds us of a mango

The next day my good friend got the same rabbit, but a male, hoping to make some babies.. 

Now my bunny is so big!! No more the size of one mango, but two mangos! 

India, tomorrow <3