What should we do with the drunken scholar?

Another week has passed and I’ve been living in Hangzhou for over a month now, but it feels like I’ve been here forever.

Week started pretty normal with classes, the gym and some morning taijiquan. The weather had started to change with strong winds and temperature dropping and on Wednesday it all culminated in one hell of a storm. It started pouring down heavily and I was very glad to be inside. The followed a lightning and thunder storm of the likes I’ve only seen once before in my life. It honestly felt like New Years Eve or being in a war zone with lightning striking down only a few hundreds meter away followed instantly by a roaring thunder – and I naturally enjoyed it like a little schoolboy.

Wednesday night was when troubled started brewing. There was a pubquiz at Maya bar on Chinese history and culture. Our team didn’t win, but we did get a “penalty” that meant tequila shots for people, more drinking commenced during the quiz and in the end we got more free shots. I taught my fellow dorm-mates the drinking game “ Buffalo ”, which turned out to be a great success. In the end we were all pretty drunk and staggered home after a stop at McDonalds, the only place for a midnight snack sadly (I miss the kebabs of Copenhagen ).

The next day I had to get up at 7am due to having 6 hours of classes that day. My alarm went off at 7, but I fell asleep again and woke up at 7.50, quickly put on some clothes, put some gum in my mouth and rode my half-flat bike to school and just made it there in time, but was a zombie for most of the day. Thursday night Josh, Cobus (an American from Nebraska who also lives at the dorm) and I went to Medusa bar for Latin night, but it turned out to be a quiet night so we went back at midnight . Though, I must admit that I was a bit disappointed that I didn’t get a chance to dance.

Friday night we went out again for the student party, bearing in mind that I had classes from 8am again Saturday, the party turned out to be great fun though and I got to dance, hang in the bar and chat. Get hit on by a very, very drunk and incoherent Chinese girl before getting home at 3.30. I got up in time, went to class from 8am to 9.30, went home and slept two hours, had lunch and then had classes from 1pm to 4pm. Was a rough day, but I survived it and got my homework done in time.

Today I had classes from 8 till 11.30 and now I’m done and having survived the most boring weekend of my life (apart from all the drinking) I am looking forward to my week holiday.

Tonight there was a huge buffet at campus due to the national holiday, but the place was packed and the pesky North Koreans ate all the meat right away and then they played some awful music, but at least it was free and you got to chat with nice people.

I’ve done must of my packing and am leaving for the railway station in half an hour for my 15 hour trip to Beijing on hardseat (yes, I’m still whining about that), but hope to get upgraded to sleeping, but I’m not holding my breath on it.

Anyways the next update will be from Beijing , so take care till then.

Casper

For whom the (school)bell tolls

So it’s been a while since my last update so it’s time to add another section to my Great Wall of text that is my little China blog-novel.

Classes began last week on Tuesday where I had reading and speaking class. Each class is 1½ hour long, which is actually like things back home in Denmark just without the 15 minute break. Last week of class was hard and I was struggling with the reading. For example, in my other reading class, the teacher asked us to read a two-page text on the spot. There were so many characters and words that I didn’t know or had forgotten, so I didn’t even read the whole thing. Chinese is a really context based language so if you miss one character or word you can be so lost in a text. Though the beginning is a bit rough I’m picking up quickly and things are slowly getting easier, but I am still very limited when it comes to reading and writing, so I will need to study loads and loads of characters… if I can find the time… Oh well, I like a challenge. I like my class. We’re some Canadians, a German, a Russian, some Australians, a girl from Kazakhstan and lots of Koreans. Then there are some overseas Chinese who speak fluently, but other than that I think the level is pretty equal and people are friendly and nice. The worst thing about classes is that they all start at 8am, which is an awful time to start learning at when you’re used to classes starting no earlier than 10am. Homework is also pretty time extensive as I have to look up a lot of words and characters still, but in a month or so it will hopefully get better. Rome wasn’t (re)build in a day.

Last week I also bought my very first China bike. Went half a year in Beijing without one since everything was either within walking distance or too far for biking anyways. I spent 185 kuai on a small very shabby bike that seems to be more plastic than metal and when you ride it you’re in constant fear that its going to break down. It’s a valid fear since the other dorm-guy’s bikes have either had their pedals fall off or their chain snap. Apart from a flat tyre that just needed some air mine is still going strong as I pedal in out of Chinese pedestrians, scooters, cars and other bicycles. At the risk of jinxing everything (touch wood) I think the Hangzhou traffic on bike is nothing compared to Nørrebrogade during rush hour – that’s the best practice you can get!

Other than that the daily life here in Hangzhou goes on and I’m falling more and more in love with the city. Beijing is fun for going out and having some crazy nights, but Hangzhou feels so local, slow-paced and has this small-town feel except that the population of 6,6 million is bigger than the entire population of Denmark . Hangzhou is also incredibly beautiful and it feels like living in a Chinese landscape painting with majestic lakes, lush green forests, bamboo groves and mountains. I really love it as there are so many possibilities if you want to get away from city life – it’s just a few minutes away on bike.

The weather here is hot! Very hot! And very humid! Saturday it was 32 degrees Celsius, but due to the humidity it felt like 37. The weather has been like that for the past few days with temperature around 30 degrees that feel like 35-37. It also means that after practicing taijiquan I am completely drenched in sweat the same way I am when I go to the gym. But all in all I guess it beats cold winds, rain ect. Though I must admit that I genuinely love the Danish autumn weather and Copenhagen during autumn – that’s one of the things I miss down here.

I still practice taijiquan, but mostly on my own now and then I meet with Huajun a few times a week when we both have time and train for an hour or so and I get my movements corrected. I’ve been going to the gym three times each week since signing up and will continue to do so as long as I’m here in Hangzhou . A funny story regarding the gym: There was a Chinese guy who was working out under the supervision of one of the personal trainer who was stretching said guys legs and the guy was whimpering away like a woman having sex or a small puppy being horribly tortured! It was almost impossible not to laugh like a maniac, because that sound was just so weird and SO out of place. After stretching he hit the weights and then proceeded to grunt and yell like a weightlifter lifting 400kg or as if he was taking a shit the size of Mars – and he was only lifting like 10-20kg! Heck, even the trainer had a look on his face of “What the fuck…?”

Friday I officially became a Hangzhouren (citizen) as I went to the police station and obtained my residence permit that is now sitting neatly in my passports next to all my Chinese visas. After getting our permits a lot of us from the dorm went to check out a very touristy market street where I’d also been two years ago as a tourist before we went to Beijing . We also ate excellent ice cream at Dairy Queen (an American ice cream chain) where’d also eaten ice cream to pass time to years earlier. Place hadn’t change at all and I could swear that they were still working on renovating the same road as last time. We strayed off the tourist market and went to a bit more local area, which was nice.

And then there is party life and going out. Thursday a lot of us went to Latin night at Medusa bar again. Our shifus (the guys who sit in the lobby and let us in at night) gave us a look of “Oh, how we hate you” and didn’t seem to happy about having to get up in the middle of the night to let us in. Medusa is a newly opened bar/club that is run by a Hungarian named Zoli, a really friendly chap that I always greet and talk to when we’re there. Latin night was spent playing cards, drinkring and lots and lots of dancing. I was pretty smashed Friday morning during class, but hey C’est la vie. On top of that I also had a nice aircondition-cold that was topping. Friday night we went back to Medusa for another studentparty and ladies night with free tequila and Long Island Iceteas for 10 kuai – very nice. And again I danced the night away.

Saturday was too hot to do anything so I spent most of the day sleeping to catch up. At night almost all of us from the dorm went to a Chinese restaurant down town that one of the teachers had recommend to an Italian girl. Restaurant turned out to be complete shit though so we won’t be going back there. Then we checked out the nightmarket, I bought some clothes, tried bargaining for a little statue, but the price was too high, but maybe next time. Then we tried finding a karaoke place, but the place is with an included buffet so the price was a bit too much since we’d already eaten. We ended up at a nearby bar called “reggae bar” (wasn’t that much reggae though) had a few beers and then some of us went to Medusa yet again for more dancing. Thankfully my cold is on retreat and almost gone, so going out three nights in a row is an excellent cure!

The national holiday (October 1^st ) is coming up next week and since we have a week of I went to buy a train ticket to Beijing . Bad news were that soft sleeper and hard sleeper were both sold out, so I have a 12-hour train ride on hard seat ahead of me if I can’t get upgraded – I really fear how that experience is going to be like. But at least the ticket only cost 200 kuai one way. In Beijing I will also be meeting with a Qigong and Gongfu trainer to see if he will accept me as a student. He is a bit expensive (50 euro for 1 hour), but he is legit and the type of qigong he teaches is hard to come by, so I think I’m going to pay for the whole 10 hour course. So far I’ve spent so much more on training down here. The downside of the national holiday is that we have class Saturday and Sunday, bastards!

Think that about covers my current situation. I am enjoying every moment here in China and still feel so extremely happy and grateful to have gotten this opportunity. People are nice, the weather is nice and life seems so care free and easy. Yup, I’m becoming even more of a hippie. Take care all.

Casper

Gold at the end of the rainbow… or across the street rather

Have to update once more as I am absolutely ecstatic about a discovery that validates the update! I just found out that across the street we live on a new store has opened that specializes in imported goods. This means you can get pasta, pesto, some canned fish, but most importantly they have real chocolate! Even from Belgium ! But the absolutely best part is the imported beers! Oh heaven, they have Newcastle Brow Ale, Hoegarden and Buddington for 20-23 kuai, which, granted, is a bit more expansive, but compared to the watery Chinese beer with an alcohol percentage of 1-3% real ale is a godsend that I’d happily pay extra for. So that place is going to be frequented a lot!

Going out to Panchos was also very nice. I borrowed a big sombrero from Laurinda and we all went out with little Mexican flags. We all had a Mexican specialty that I’ve forgotten the name of (my Spanish isn’t that good) but it consisted of a big green pepper filled with meat and vegetables and with red rice on the side – really tasty! Some people at the restaurant also started playing guitars and singing Mexican songs, so while we were there we were no longer in China, but in Mexico – at least that’s how I felt it.

It also made me wonder how a Dane would present our culture to foreigners. I’ve told about our holidays, which are mostly just all the Christian holidays. Our “Grundlovsdag” isn’t really that widely celebrated. And what music would we play that is really “Danish”? Dansktop? Gasolin? Kim Larsen? I honestly can’t say.

Casper

The Hotpot and the Coco Club

The student-party at Medusa turned out to be great fun even though the bar staff was a bit overwhelmed and slow since the place was very packed. But it was another night of lots of dancing and of course some of the poor ladies fell victim to the vicious free tequila shots that came with the ladies night.

Saturday morning was once again spent first training taijiquan on my own and then meeting with Huajun in campus. I finished learning all the movement of the form so from now on it will be a lot of practice on my own and then Huajun will help me correct and improve it. We’ll also soon begin to focus more on the martial aspect of taijiquan. So there is a lot to look forward to.

In the afternoon I headed over to the International College at campus to see what class they put me in and to get my books. Turned out I got into class 5,2 which is the second highest level, so I’m quite happy with that. I have 24 hours of class each week with Wednesday off. So it will be pretty intense considering that I only had 2 hours of class each week last semester, but then again my Chinese will take off.

At night 10 of us from the dorm went out to eat hotpot which is like fondue only very, very spicy though the pot is divided into a spicy section and a more mild section. We ordered a lot of different food to put into the hotpot and it was very tasty, but very hot and spicy so we all sat there sweating.

After eating we went to Maya bar and had a few beers and drinks and I talked a bit with Laurinda about our different countries, culture and customs. After Maya we all went to a club called Coco , which is kind of a hip-hop venue. I prefer Medusa but we still had a fun night with lots of dancing. Was the fourth night in a row going out so now I know for sure that I am back in China again – it’s a wonderful feeling and I’m enjoying every minute of it.

I slept in on Sunday since Huajun is celebrating the Moon Festival back home in his village with his family and since it was raining I couldn’t practice in our yard. The day was spent studying some more characters and just taking it easy.

Laurinda had invited Josh and I for dinner with the Cuban couple (the husband was the one who DJ’d at Medusa Thursday for the Latin night) and some of their French friends. Laurinda taught Josh and I to make tacos, so now I can make tacos and know a few basic salsa steps – I’m getting the Latin fever. Laurinda made some shredded chicken with mole which was extremely tasty.

After the dinner there was a small dorm party at Cobus (an American from Nebraska ) and Manny’s (from Israel ) room though the beer ran out shortly after I got there, we still sat around talking till 4am .

Tonight we will go to the Mexican restaurant Pancho to celebrate the Mexican Independence Day and tomorrow my classes start at 8am , which means the end of an extremely long and enjoyable summer vacation.

Casper

Enter Chinamode

Finally I have time to sit down and update my blog. I’ve been busy – very busy! I’ve gone into what I called Chinamode- which is when I start having an everyday routines, know the surrounding area, know all the good restaurants, start going out a lot and then it also no longer feels like being a tourist in a new place, but a it feels like you’ve lived here all your life. It’s a wonderful carefree feeling that has to be experienced. The downside to Chinamode is that time then races by at a very high speed and before I know it I’ll be back in Denmark again. So I’m enjoying every day and am very thankful for being here. Also means that I’m not updating as often, but will try to keep you posted when I have time. So far my days have gone like this: Get up at 7am to practice on my own, then meet with Huajun at 9 and practice for two hours, then go buy some bread at a nice local french bakery that sells European bread (Chinese bread is shit) and maybe chit-chat a bit with the waitress. Then head back to the dorm and do some stretching. Then have a shower and a shave and go out for lunch (usualy the Muslim place) then go back to study a bit. Go to the gym at 17 and stay for a couple of hours. Then back to shower and head out to lunch. Maybe do some studying before heading to bed and then rinse repeat. I will certainly not get bored here!

Since Friday I’ve been doing taijiquan (tai chi) with Huajun for two hours every day. I usually get up at 7am and then practice a bit on my own for an hour or two before meeting with him and it feels great to be doing taijiquan again and the new style I’m learning is fun and interesting. He’s a great guy and he’s got a great understanding of martial arts and taijiquan so we have some nice conversations about martial arts, our backgrounds, politics and China ect. Really feel lucky that I’ve found him as he’s both a skilled teacher and a good friend. We practice on campus at a night secluded area where birds sing though there are a lot of mosquitoes that enjoy my tasty Danish blood some times the silence is killed by the distance my-first-Fisher-Price-organ of the water truck.

The dorm is now full of foreign students doing both masters degrees, Ph.D. or just language courses from countries such as Lithuania, Mexico, Israel, Belgium, Germany, Argentina, Malaysia, Belarus, Ukraine, Israel, New Zealand, Switzerland, Nigeria, Japan, Russia, the US and some North Koreans that plays a lot of pingpong and mostly keep to themselves though. Again I must say that it is great to meet so many different people from so many different countries. We always go out to eat together which is great in China as you can order many different dishes. Tuesday Laurinda invited us to a Mexican restaurant where one of her friends was celebrating his birthday so met a lot of new people there as well. Tuesday Pablo and Laurinda invited us for lunch and Pablo cooked pasta and beef for us which tasted great! One night we also went to Maya for some drinks and I taught them the drinking game called “Fuck the dealer” and people quickly learned why the came is called so as the dealer gets to drink a lot. This week almost all of us went to Maya bar and I met some more of Laurinda’s friends and got enjoy some nice imported ale which is a nice escape from the usual watery Chinese beer. Yesterday we went to a bar called Medusa that just opened recently so the owner was very keen on greeting us and gave us a round of free tequila shots and 1,5L of beer – not bad at all! A friend of Laurinda was working as a DJ there and every Thursday is Latin night so I got to shake my hips. Am nothing compared to Latin people though – they’re just born with rhythm and dance in their blood. Laurinda also taught me some basic salsa steps and I’m looking forward to my next lessons.

Wednesday was the day we had the placement test to see what class they’ll put us in for the language course. The oral part of the test went quite well, but I’m really hindered by the fact that I’ve neglected studying characters for so long as there are a lot of characters I can’t read. The written part of the test was a complete slaughterhouse! We had one hour to write the pinyin of some characters and write the characters of some pinyin. There was no time to do it all so I focused on writing a small essay on China and stuff and do some other stuff that gave you most points. None of the foreign students had done well on the test so I think they set the bar very high to see our level. Will get my results on Saturday and also pick up the teaching materials. Then on Tuesday classes start, which will be a hard change having been on holiday since the 9^th of June.

I also returned to the bookstore this week and got hold on one of the books needed for my self study on Daoism. So next week its time to grind through pages of Chinese most likely a bit higher for my level, but it will be very beneficial and a road you have to walk when you’re majoring in Sinology.

The weather has been unbearably hot this week and even though we’re in September it is as hot as a hot July day back in Denmark only much more humid. But the temperature should drop some soon and until then we cherish our air conditioning.

The Chinese Moon Festival is also coming up soon this weekend and I hope there will be some fancy lights at the West Lake to take pictures of. The Moon Festival is due with the Chinese Lunar calendar and they usual eat moon cakes and eat with their families. More info here if you should be interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Festival

I’ve also signed up for the gym for a year and am going there a minimum of three times a week. I don’t think I’ve ever been as active in my life as I am now with my taijiquan and the gym, but it’s needed to fight off the Chinese food so you don’t end up with a round potbelly like many of the Chinese men.

We’ve also been to the Four Seasons cloth market where they sell lots of fake brands and all that. Only got a shirt and a pair of running shoes though as they wouldn’t go down to the price I wanted, but I’ll definitely be back with a vengeance as I only brought very little clothes here and most of that is too warm to wear at the moment.

Think that just about covers the current state of affairs. Am going to Medusas again to night where they will be a big party for all the new students. Also its ladies nights so ladies drink tequila for free – drunken debauchery ahoy!

Casper

Being International

Time for another update as a lot has happened since I last wrote.

We got up early Friday morning and went to the lecture at Zijingang Campus and it probably took us 15 minutes to get there in cab. The campus is the main campus of Zhejiang University and also the place where all the new fancy buildings are being built. The place is huge with many big and impressive buildings, but the atmosphere was a little too sterile for my likings. On the pavement there were little toadstool shaped speakers that played very loud marching music – very Chinese! An American we met, who lives on the campus, told us that the music starts at around 5.30am which must be extremely annoying. The lecture took place in a small auditorium and we were almost the only white foreign students there among a lot of Korean and Japanese, so we could easily have skipped the whole thing. We did, however, meet our contact person from the university there so perhaps we scored some easy brownie points for our efforts.

The lecture was mostly just the Chinese praising the university and letting us know that it’s one of the best universities in China and all that. Then they showed us a lot of famous people they’ve given honorary degrees – this included a picture of Stephen Hawking getting his degree and in the background was written with big red letters: “Brane new world”… those Chinese and their English. After that some policemen told us about getting resident permit and all that, but they basically just read aloud from a pamphlet we’d already gotten. Good thing was that it was mostly done in Chinese and English and not translated into Korean and Japanese. Also one of the people opened with a little joke which the majority of people chuckled or smiled lightly at, but the previously mentioned American burst out laughing as if it had been one of the funniest things he’d heard in his life. It was so obvious that he did that only to illustrate that he could understand the Chinese… in a room full of people who study the language… what a tool.

The visit to the campus also made us greatly appreciate living where we live near Yuquan Campus where things are more relaxed and down to earth.

At night Josh, Pablo and I went out to eat some Japanese. I had some Japanese dumpling and some grilled salmon and it was nice to eat fish again. We also sat talking about how the world has definitely become a smaller and more global place. There we were an Argentinean, an Australian and a Dane from the very far apart places of the world and we were talking like we’d been friends all our lives. After eating we went for a quiet beer at Maya, but headed home early as Pablo had to get up and teach in the morning.

Saturday was the day I tried out our washing machine! As with almost all washing machines here in China it doesn’t use hot water so your clothes will never be fully cleaned (which means being very careful of not spilling when you eat). And to add to that, there is also no lid on it, so when you washes water splashes everywhere. Anyways, I boldly ventured forth and got my clothes washed, but when it was time to spin-dry the clothes it was as if the machine had been possessed by the devil and was now very fed up with being a slave for humans and being filled with dirty socks and underwear. It let forth some loud cacophonic “Clonk! Clonk! Clonk!” noises and was trying to escape! Had to hold it down with my hands which seems to calm the bastard down a little bit and then not put as much clothes in the spin-dryer, which helped. So even doing laundry is an adventure here.

After that I went out to get myself a guitar! It should be noted that I am in no way good at playing the guitar, only having been practicing for roughly a year, but I need the practice and have loads of fun with it. So I walked big Chinese roads down to the music shop and got myself a western guitar, a capo, a pick and a bag for 495 kuai and the guitar sounds lovely, so I think it was a bargain and it feels great playing again.

At night Pablo, Josh and I went out to dinner with two Lithuanian girls who has just moved in to the dorm, can’t remember how to spell their names though. They’re only doing the language course and people just doing that only have to register before September 8^th , so soon the dorm should fill up. We went to a Chinese restaurant chain called Grandmas Kitchen and it turned out to be great food! It reminded me of the food in Beijing and it was quite cheap as well, but their beer was absolutely horrible and was just water really. Then we went to Maya again and talked about our different cultures and countries and how they differed. We also met Danielle and another American there.

Sunday was a very lazy day, where I didn’t do much. We got our Internet upgraded to 4mb so now I can listen to Danish radio without any problems. But that didn’t helped much as my local football club, Lyngby Boldklub played like crap once again, sigh. Josh and I also arose to the role of knights in shining armour when we helped Anni, the German girl, and her roommate Clare, from the Czech Republic , with their questions on sim-cards and internet. Anni speaks no Chinese and is just doing the language course as a hobby taking a year off from Uni back home. I can’t imagine how much a challenge China is when you don’t know the language – hell, it’s a big enough struggle when you know it!

At night we went out with a Mexican girl called Laurindra, who also lives at the dorm and is doing her Masters in communication, Mark the Dutch also joined us again. He’s doing physics at Zhejiang , but lives at a dorm inside campus. Again it was wonderful to meet people from cultures you don’t really know a lot about and I am so glad that I’m living at the International Dorm – wouldn’t change it for the world! Have also found out that all the newcomers, who landed in Shanghai , took the bus from the airport without any problems. Why I was denied such luxury I will never know, but that’s China

Yesterday I had lunch at a little Muslim restaurant close by, that Pablo (who else) introduced us to. Here you can get a big dish of noodles, some beef and aubergine for 12 kuai, so it’s a good and cheap place to get lunch. Afterwards I went out on a quest to find a big bookstore where I could possibly find the book needed for my self study on Daoism. Think it took me half an hour to 45 minutes to walk there and the place was HUGE! I think you could easily fit all of the bookstores in Copenhagen into this one. But of course they didn’t have the book I was after – typical… So then I went on another semi long walk to another bookstore that was also very big, but didn’t have my book either. Then I took a taxi home – the hunt will continue another day.

In the afternoon we went to the gym for some workout and Josh and I got a free trial before having to pay for full membership, which we’ll most likely do. Was nice working out again, but was totally spent afterwards, but in a good way.

We met another newcomer when we came home, a Belgian guy named Neil, who’s also here for the language program. A lot of us went out to eat at the little restaurant that is hidden away back in some alleys. They should be from the north-eastern part of China so the food is excellent, very cheap and most importantly they put plenty of meat in their dishes! One of my favourite places so far!

Tomorrow I’ll be meeting with a taijiquan (tai chi) trainer that I’ve gotten in contact with. I will be finding out if he’s the real deal and if he can teach the martial art aspect of taijiquan. He’s a bit expensive so will be exciting to meet him. Have also gotten in contact with a Shaoling gongfu and Qigong instructor, who might be willing to accept me as a student, when I go to Beijing . So a lot of interesting stuff is happening.

The traffic here in Hangzhou is very Chinese and a bit chaotic, but I have experienced worse in Beijing . So far I’ve seen three mild traffic accidents all involving bicycles and Chinese who aren’t looking where they’re going so they bump into each other. One day there’d been an accident and a Chinese woman was very angry and switching between yelling at a cop (who was just smiling) and sitting on the sidewalk sulking. There was a big crowd of Chinese spectators gathered and it was hard to tell who’d done who.

Other interesting observations: Hangzhou has some kind of water truck that drives around pouring water on the streets (even when it rains for some dumb reason) and it plays some weird bingely-bongely type music like the birthday cards you can buy. So a big water truck playing vivaldi, happy birthday and other weird songs as it waters the road – so obscure.

As I’m writing this there’s been a car honking for the past half our in 5 minute intervals and then it goes “HONK! HONK! HONK! HONK! HONK!” and I’m tempted to get up, open the window and scream at the top of my lungs: “Oh for crying out loud will you shut the fuck up already!!!!”. China will either make you very patient human being or make you kill someone or yourself. So far I’d like to think I’ve just become a more patient human being – though I wont rule out murdering the guy honking his brains out if he keeps going at it for much longer!

As I’ve mentioned some time ago I’ve brought some Danish liquorish called “Piratos” that is extremely salty. I offered Josh some, but he didn’t like it – as a matter of fact he called it disgusting, hehe. I’ve yet to meet a non-Danish person who likes Piratos, but this is a good thing as I can have them all for myself.

Guess that’s all for now, will keep you posted.

Casper