taking a piss...

sorry, no offense, but this is kind of funny... not gonna display the video here, but click on the link below to witness imense harsh reality.. Not that this can´t be found elsewhere.

Americans aren´t that dumb!

Rainy season...

It is actually raining in Hong Kong.. Good thing is that it is hotter and more humid than ever!! Well, the hot part is nice, the humid part of it means breaking a sweat just by turning around when you wake up in the morning. Hehe, have been told by HK chinese that june and july and august is intolerable and they hate it due to humidity. I don´t care, I´ve lived so long in Bergen, I hardly notice it if my clothes and hair gets wet. =)

Stolten' jo!

Jøss, leste at statsministern var i dette landet gitt! Skal proklamere miljø og menneskerettigheter her borte. Blir nok lite coverage her om det..

Benytter anledningen til å si - hvor er alle kommentarene!?????!!!!

Camilla and talked about this and agreed that we won´t write anymore posts about the trip unless we start seing that someone are reading them!

Takk for meg og dagens syting..

chinese cooking

shaomai

I finally decided that it was about time to learn how to cook these fab chinese dishes we have been served the past two months. I actually bought some vermicelli in the store and shaomai which is very hard to buy due to the labelling in chinese. Hence, the time it took me to build up the guts to go and buy it. I ate some extremely good homecooked rice, corn and veggie shaomai in Shantou, but they only had shrimp, fish and chicken in the store, so I went with the latter one. I put vegetables and the shaomai, into the vermicellis and made a wonderful soup! Hooray for chinese cooking!! =) When I got to the eating part of it, I realised I was out of wooden chopsticks that we always take with us from the cantine. I don´t find it easy to eat noodles and shaomai with a fork, but searched for it in order to find out that it has been lost somewhere unknown. I knew I should have bought chopsticks for myself sooner. My conclusion today is that I have to invest in a pair of my own chopsticks. That is for sure.

pictures say it all..

teaching in Shantou - part 3

Next day we left early in the morning to go for a city tour before our bus returned home to HK. Hau came to see us off and Joy came with us as we sat in the minibus. They drove us through a hundred years old part of the city, which probably won´t be there in ten years due to the lack of money to rehabilitate them. They are deteriorating and a looong history will disappear. They apparently didn´t want to show us this part of the city so they took us to Walmart instead! We said we wanted to see more of the busy everyday streets of Shantou and they took us there after a while – though a little reluctant and not really understanding why we wanted to see that part of town. We saw what we came for though, chaos in the streets, a thriving street packed with bicycles, motorbikes and cars and buses all of were going around each other on whatever side was convenient. Along the streets there were merchants selling vegetables, salads, meat and everything else you can think of – fairly unaffected by the busy traffic passing them only half a meter in front of them. Joy was like a shepard, making sure that we wouldn´t get run over by traffic or got stuck with a salesperson somewhere along the street. She was sweet and took good care of us. As we were departing she took out a handful of jewelry she had bought for us and they were all especially chosen to each and everyone of us and none of them were the same. We were all so grateful and surprised that she had made such a gesture to us. Next time a class will come here we will send something for her with them. Filled with all of these impressions, we entered the bus – which turned out to be a business class bus with leather seats and tv – what a contrast to what we just experienced!