Beijing
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Happy Holidays from China!!
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all of you!!! Am missing my precious “Orphan Christmas” in Montreal this year, with my dear friends cooking and drinking, laughing and singing… Vous me manquez les amis, je pense beaucoup à vous ces jours-ci!!! Joyeuses Fêtes xxxxxxx Some Xmas-photo-impressions of my last weeks… actually, Asia is not as…
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Life in Beijing: Subway, a Sunday at Tian’anmen & other lovely details
In the morning, I am taking the subway to get to work. My plan with the scooter is not realized yet. But coming, at some point! 🙂 I might wait for next spring though. For now, Subway & taxi is doing the job. The subway works really well. It is full of people when you…
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winter = heating = air pollution
The air pollution and the mask days have arrived. First week of October was the National Holiday week, called “Golden Week”. The whole country is off from work, well, kind of. All offices, at least. While the first days had been very beautiful and sunny, the second half of the week was awfully polluted. When…
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Work life in China or the extension of my role
Some of you might remember what a never-ending nightmare it was to get all the paperwork done to receive my work papers for China. I am proud of these documents now: In addition to the resident visa in my passport, I received this Alien Employment Permit. The bar code is actually me. Me as a…
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my first 10 days in Beijing
So here I am! …in Beijing…. July 10, 2015. After a few months off in Germany, having finally the greatest time ever enjoying family, old and new friends… resting, having fun, and, after 15 years away, discovering once again my home-town and -country, with some visits here and there in Europe. And here I am…