COMING BACK FROM CHINA (PART 1) Much has been written about travelling to China. What to expect, how to behave, the different social rules, greetings, food, transportation, buying stuff, and many other topics have been covered by innumerable writings and videos. However, it seems harder to find a piece of writing about how to deal with a return home after being in China for a considerable amount of time. For westerners like me it is not only the jet lag effect that you have to deal with, many other things around or inside you need to be adjusted once more. After a long flight I got home so tired that I headed straightly to bed. There, I found the first sign that getting back to my previous life would not be so easy: I noticed that the mattress was extremely soft. The first times I slept in a bed in China I complained about the hardness of the mattress, but eventually I got used to it to the point that now I am wondering how it could have been possible to sleep in such soft mattresses all my life. (It continues in Part 2)