iminshanghaibitch

Yo folks. Welcome to my blog. This is actually my second entry already, but I guess I should introduce myself first and tell you what kind of scrap/crap you'll expect to see here... Well, I'm a 20 year old Swedish guy living in Shanghai (which I'v been doing for more than 1 year now), a city marketing itself as the new big center of business, culture and entertainment in the far east. Whatever other people might tell me about this city I'll always stick to the fact that I do consider living here for the rest of my life... Because it's just simply amazing. If you don't believe me, follow my blog continuously and I'll personally guide you into every hotspot and corner of Shanghai. And its definitely not all about the clubbing.

Before I studied Chinese here, or call it "Mandarin", a language so easy to learn speaking, but incredibly "impossible" to learn writing/reading. I started in September 2009 at Jiao Tong University here in Shanghai, but fucked up my studies last semester at due to difficulties and misunderstandings with my teachers. The Chinese way of teaching its students is not very popular and sometimes not acceptable enough for us foreigners to understand, who simply cannot keep up with the Chinese highschool masterminds. Shortly said, in China the education is about learning as much as possible in the shortest amount of time, which means endless amounts of homework, tests and accounts. This wasn't an easy thing to get used to, so in the end I jumped off the course.

Now I'm trying to find a way to get a stabilized life here. A life as a Chinese, a life with a Chinese. If its possible or not I'm not sure, but I'll do whatever I can to make it possible. That's my puzzled reality.



Welcome to Shanghai.