The second month has already passed, already for two months in China. Life in Jinan is becoming more normal and I am getting used to the Chinese way of life. To be honest, it feels more like two weeks than months that I'm here. Time is going so fast that every week feels like a day. That is probably because we have classes six days a week and don't have a lot of free time. Having classes during the week from 8 to 17 and then going out eating for about two hour...

For the international students on campus a party was organized to get more familiar with the Chinese culture and afterwards we spend the afternoon in the national park. In the morning there was a sort of party for us as international student and for Chinese students who went abroad. The idea was they're familiarizing us with the Chinese culture, even though we're already here for quite some time. So we played some games, learned how to make Chinese knots and w...

Back on campus again and today is 11.11, which is the so called singles' day in China where single people go out eating together and go (online) shopping. Today the weather was very good here in Jinan and there was no sign of pollution, a perfectly clear sky. So after class and lunch I went for a walk off campus to an area where I hadn't been before. I ended up near a large lake, surrounded by mountains, a swimming pool, a theme park and several restaurants. T...

The last day in this city we tried again to go the Science and Technology museum and we flew back to Jinan in a bit less time than it took us to get here by train. Because we hadn't seen the Science and Technology museum yet, we decided to go there today. Our flight was in the evening so we basically had the whole afternoon to spend there. And that is exactly what we did; the exhibition was huge with many different halls with several subjects and inventions. F...

What we explored today was the oldest and narrowest part of Shanghai, the market where you can buy virtually anything and we went to the meeting with Finnish companies. What we didn't see yet in Shanghai was the area where people aren't as rich as in the city center and where the streets are narrow and everything is very old. So that is where we went today and it was surprisingly close to the city center. The area over there was a lot older than the city cente...