Hello everyone! This is the beginning of an adventure, a journey that I want to share with all of you, so here is the background and the vague plan of my year away in China. In september 2011 I started my first year of university doing a BA in Chinese at SOAS, London. I am often asked why I decided to learn one of the hardest languages in the world, and to be honest I wasn't a 100% sure back in september and after a year of gruelling character and grammar lesson...