A trip to Tianjin

After living in Wudaokou, Beijing, for almost half a year without even concidering go anywhere else, Ting and I yesterday decided to go to Tianjin. Tianjin is known for being the harbour of Beijing, but as we realized when we arrived, Tianjin is 60 kms from the ocean. Neither of us had heard anything of the city before, so the both of us thought "why not, lets go". The train, which travels with the speed of 300 km/h, took only half an hour.

We found a BIG clock in Tianjin and we had to, of course, take a picture of it!

PKU's speech contest for foreign students

Some time ago, I was elected from my class to praticipate in PKU's speech contest for foreign students. To make a long story short; I made a fool of myself and forgot every single word. But here is the speech for those of you who can read and understand Chinese. For the rest of you, I suggest you use translate.google.com.

我的家

我是挪威人。我从小是挪威人，将来是挪威人，但是我不知道我的家在哪儿。我在挪威有一个房子，在老家有很多朋友，但是我没有一个地方叫‘我的家’；我是无家可归的。

我很喜欢旅行，每年都会去很多地方；人们每次问我‘为什么， 为什么你去那么多的地方’。 我以前没有一个回答，所以人们觉得我想找到我是谁。他们想的是，我不知道我是谁，但是我是21岁，我是年轻人，我有长时间。
我的妈妈叫我‘吉普赛人’ 因为我去过很多地方， 因为我不停留旅行。但是我现在知道，我有一个回答；我旅行因为我想找我的家。

Next update!

I'm trying to update my blog, but China is China, the internet is slow, I can't open my email, can't upload photos and my computer is behaving funny, so the next interesting blogupdate(s) is being posted in 11 days when I'm, sadly, back in Norway (and yes, it's going to be at least two - one with my speech from the speech contest and one with pictures from the trip to Tianjin).

Untill then - have fun!