Packing and other stuff

I am sorry for not having written anything lately, but I have been quite busy with work, and now that I finally got a few days off, I have just spent them to relax as much as possible.

So, about packing for going to China for 19 weeks, not an easy task I have to say! And it annoys me a bit that I didn't take a picture of it, since it would have been easier to show that way. But in general I just tried to pack for atleast a week, so that I could wash it afterwards. Though of course, some clothes you can easily wear for 2 days before washing them.

Most of what I packed was for work, including my computer, work clothes, and a bag to bring it all back and forth, since I have a 20-30 min. drive to and from work from where I live in Zhuhai. In total, I think I have brought stuff with me to china for a value of over 25.000 DKK, though the electronics do take up a good part of that number.

I can't tell you what to pack, if you should be going on a trip like this, but I can tell you to bring whatever you think you will miss, if you are without it for more than a week. I have several things I didn't bring with me, simply because there wasn't enough room, and it often annoys me that I didn't switch it out with something else.

For my return home to Denmark in just about 2 months, I have planned to ship back some of the stuff I don't use anymore, to make more room in the suitcases for my return. It will mostly be the warm clothes, as the average temperature have become quite high. Even though we are closing in on the rain season, I can expect temperatures between 22-27 degrees in average each day, even the days that it will rain.

I enjoy the sunshine, but the high temperature does make one want to stay inside, since it is cooler than outside. I am amazed how everyone in my host family can sleep in their pajamas under the duvet in this heat, when I have to use the air conditioner to be able to sleep at all.

Something else that amazes me about the Chinese, is their eating habits when it comes to the more unhealthy things. Chinese love sweet things, the put sugar on or in many of their dishes, but they rarely eat candy, ice cream and cake. Comparing to a danish child, in the midst of Easter, my hostmother bought her daugther a chocolate rabbit. Had she been a danish child, she would have eaten it right away, or atleast as soon as they got home, but now, almost 2 weeks having passed, she still haven't eaten it. She have looked at it many times, even taken it out of the paper packaging, but it remains standing on the shelf, uneaten.