time flies... me too!

so, its been a while again, so here a quick catch up:
I returned from HK on December 18th, being my moms personal birthday surprise! The first week home was weeeeiiird people! cold weather, people that look like me, and I am not the tallest and fattest around anymore (in comparison to the Chinese that is), people understand me - and I them! I can read everything that comes in sight. and it is clean. not that Hong Kong is not, but the air. my god its so fresh!
and oh yes of course: the Christmas Market in Aachen... with real Glühwein.. yummy... then Christmas with my family... just nice!!

I miss Hong Kong though.. it was a great time there... I couldnt really decide what I loved most... guess just tha big-city-life ;).... the nice weather, accessability to other places in Asia... party in HK... and all the weird stuff that I came across. Of course there are things that I wont miss... such as chese with pineapple and chocolate flavour... elevators that talk to me ('ba lou - eight floor') and all other kinds of speaking information ('please stand behind the yellow line - the train to lo wu is approaching...').

Over new years I visited my best friend on the northernmost point of germany on the isle of Rügen... nice place, slightly more quiet than Hong Kong... and it was cool to spend new years eve on the beach! After the new year, I went to Poland for a weekend, then to Bremen where I met up with Lisa. Another weird moment. What is she doing here? Does she belong here? NO! Go back to Hong Kong where you belong - Room 750... PolyU student halls of residence!

To keep myself busy, I went to Madrid to surprise Karo as well, together with Antoinette. That was a really cool weekend also... got a new jeans yeah!

Now I am back in Holland since one week. Weirdness continues. Coming back here, I took the wrong exit of the highway first, then after having to drive through the whole city, I found the way back to our flat... and of course went to the wrong floor!! oh my good! scary

I also started to work again back at the IKEA. On my first day last week I had a very warm welcome from my former and future colleagues and by now it is as though I had never left!

Today a new surprise then: the first snow of this winter!!! (it is February 8th, the fact that it was more than 10 degrees until last week will not make us think of global warming and that kinda stuff now...) Now, snow in Holland, what does that mean? oh yesss... how lovely: Ausnahmezustand! Chaos in Breda... traffic comes to an almost hault... 9 out of 10 traffic lights break down as soon as 2 snowflakes are spotted in the sky, small streets are being closed down... jajaja... have I missed that? hmmm

but well, I am glad to be back but I am also sad not to be in HK no more... and through this I wanna thank everybody who made this exchange in Hong Kong possible for me, like nhtv, my parents and the ikea for my job last year... and the people who made the time in Hong Kong so great, like all the other exchange students and the StudiVZ people!