Chinese New Year Trip to Shangougou This CNY ended up with a bunch of friends to Chinese village called Shangougou... It's been 3 CNY without celebrating with my familiar. Chinese New Year is the most meaningful and important festival in China. For people who left their hometown and work in other places will go back their hometown. meeting families, having a lot nice meal together and visiting friends and relatives are our traditions. It's like Christmas for western people. I was considering to travel outside of China, but I checked the price, everything is insanely pricey. I gave up this idea. Therefore I asked some friends join me a hiking trip and celebrate CNY with Chinese locals. For sure it's nothing special for me, I just don't want to stay empty Shanghai alone. The first day, we went hiking in the bamboo forest, along with raw road which you could not see the road. It was not so high but the roads made it a little tough. Some places are steep and tricky. Anyhow, we helped each other and used abandoned bamboo for hiking stick. After 2 hours, we still didn't reach the top and it seemed there was not track. All of us had a little conflict, some of us wanted to explore more, the rest asked to go back along the way we hiked up. As a risker taker, I followed with explorer, but half hour later, we could not hike up anymore. Obviously there was no end. So we went back. Then we started making dumplings and writing couplets on own, one of the CNY tradition is having dumplings. As most of us are not Chinese, you could see all kind of shapes dumplings, some looks like Baozi. continue

Unsere Reise zum Chongming Insel Meine beste Freundin Shuang ist von China gekommen und sie wird mit mir zusammen reisen Also das wird spitze! Und wir haben einen Camper Van gemietet. Heute geht’s los und wir freuen uns schon sehr. Jetzt fahren wir los! Wir müssen tanken. Wir haben 15 Grad.Die s Sonne scheint. Es ist wirklich wunderschön hier. Die Insel ist endlos und menschenleer. Es gibt Meer und berge. Da seht ihr viele Felsen und da drüben ist wieder das Meer.

Selbst-Einführung Hallo, mein Name is Lara. Schön, dich kennenzulernen. Ich komme aus China. Ich arbeite und wohne in Shanghai. Enies meiner Hobbys ist Wandern. Ich habe schwarze Haare und schwarze Augen. Ich höre gerne Musik. in meine Famile, Ich habe ein bruder, eine schwester. Ich bn lustig, meine Mutter ist nett, sie oft hilft anderen, und meine schwester ist freundlich. Verzeihen Sie/ es tut mir leid. mein Deutsch ist nicht gut.

Winter trip to Yellow Mountain Back 2 weeks ago, I organized a trip to Yellow Mountain, and asked some friends join me. Yellow mountain, one of the most notable and spectacular mountains in China. With its amazing sunrise, grotesque rocks, dramatic pines, and seas of clouds, Yellow Mountain attracts numerous tourists go to visit. In the warm seasons, tons of people, it comes to all people around you everywhere. So we chose winter to go. As when weather gets cold, people are lazy to go outside. I have been hiking a lot either on weekend or on holiday. For this time, we participated a Chinese college student group which is non-profit (I always join international hiking trip). This time I volunteered to be tour guide for all my friends, because I invited more than 10 friends and most of them are foreigners. Nevertheless, all trip information is written in Chinese. It took around 6 hours to Yellow Mountain by bus. It was around 2am when we arrived in our guest house in mountain area. We rushed to wash and went to bed to get ready for next day. Weather was not so good next morning, it was raining and cold. Everyone put on raincoat and was ready to get some real pain. We were lucky not so many people in the mountain. It didn’t take that much time to buy entrance tickets. We were talking to each other, it was quite international trip. We got Mexican, Spanish, Indian, German, American, French and Chinese in my team. Although fog blocked the view from the mountain, we didn’t really see the beauty of the mountain. We had some fun talks and took some nice pictures together. It was freezing, as it’s raining as well. Walking another half hour, we arrived our hotel on the top. Everyone felt released. Everyone sat together to share food which we brought from Shanghai. After lunch we took a nap. At night, we gathered at one room to have party. Someone brought some wine and someone brought vodka, we put all the snacks together. Talking and playing game. A lot of blast and laughter coming from our room. Around middle night, everyone hit the sack. We wanted to wake up early to see the sunrise next morning. After a sound sleeping, we woke up at 6 and packed up everything to leave to another peak to wait for the sunrise. Unfortunately, it was foggy as rained last day, steam gathering around. Sunrise was just no-show. So we started to climb up the mountain, this time we chose another routine to hike down. Some places are really creepy and spooky, cliffy and steep... To be continue.....

Workout have been changing my life It's been 3 years since I started doing regular exercise. You might want to know how I started and why I started. Back the time 3 years ago, I was always so negative, and feel updset without any reason. I always knew there was something wrong with my psychological issues. Which it all comes from my family and how I grew up with lacking of love. It turns out unsecrity and depression always with me. With time flying, I grraduated from college. I moved to bigger city, Chengdu, the capital city in Sichuan province, one of the biggest cities from western of China. I found a good job in international company luckily by chance. After 3 months probation, my company transfered me to Shanghai, the most internationl and biggest city in China. When I arrived in Shanghai, everything is so exciting and new for me. but when exciting moments fading aways, I started feeling no sense of belonging, all the bad feeling and emotion coming back to me again, swallowing me, eating me. Unhappiness is like a devil haunting in my life. After a while, I met one of the most important of men in my life, my ex-boyfriend. He was trying to save me and change the way how I think. He encoraged me attempt to run. To think about it. I could not catch my breath when climb up very small hill. At first 100 meters running, I had problem again to catch up breath. However, I tried again and again, everything I could run longer and longer, after two or three months, I can make it 5 kilometers without stop. Physical improvement gradually changing my metality as well. I feel I can persist in doing something, accomplish things. I bulit up more confidence. Little by Little, I become outgoing, active and postive now. Now I keep workout as my life routine. I go at least 3 or 4 time a week. I do muscle building, strength, and conditioning, multiple workout. I love the feeling to sweat, Workout just changed my life.

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