days rushing.....

Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday

Literature research. Well, you might ask, what do i need to research so much? Everything! I decided also to create a database with all the articles of the most relevant peer reviewed journals in my area. I already have some 13000 references. Scopus and endnote rule! I am getting a bit worried. Things are going quite slow here, and there is still some more exact tasks missing. I hope it gets better soon. So there is this problem, i should get some previously collected data about the source separation project, and analyze them. I already asked 4 times, and i don't know if they don't understand me, or if they don't want to give me the data. Hum, the climate chamber experiments are also not really working, there is still no gas being produced. Who knows!
Anyway, i have, like i said, been working in the database, and while i import/export all the many references, i just listen to i tunes U (podcasts and other stuff from American universities like Stanford, Yale or MIT). Sunny day again outside, i would like so much to bike.......

Monday - Upgrades

Mondays sometimes turn to be quite stressful here. So this time they surprised me, i thought that would never happen, since it was already taking so long. I moved to the foreign students apartments. Dude, it is a way much better, and i am really happy.Things are much easier now. Still have a room for myself, at least twice as big and much brighter. The bed is not so narrow, and not so hard, and they even provide the blankets, pillow, and so on.
I have Tv and fridge in the room. Having a fridge is ok, although i could really survive without. The Tv is a bit useless, since there is no channels available, and i can only connect the
computer and watch movies on it.Computer room and ping-pong table.
The laundry in big and i dont even have to buy any marks for the washing machine, and indeed there is always one available. There is a kitchen, uau, there are 6 microwaves and no stove or oven. There is a shower room with dividing walls (oh, i guess i will miss shower with all the other girls!), and i the bathroom, guess what, real toilets, so that i don't have to cower anymore. (which is good, since i got again my left knee aching from jogging....)
3 things, until now i don't know how to shower with warm water, i already asked, and even turned the boiler by myself, but, it doesn't work. there is a quite annoying noise from some electrical or whatever what installation in the corridor. Doors are closed at 10pm, instead of 10.30pm like in the normal dormitory.Nothing is perfect. But it is really much better. I was told that the university makes good money with the foreign students, the room costs 900 RMBs per month.
Wanna know what the Chinese students pay? 100/month, well, no wonder, they don't have a fifth of the comfort. Did i mention that the students are obliged to live inside the campus, in the dorms? It is amazing, they always find some way to control everything. So the official reason
is that the students are much safer here than outside, the unofficial, just calculate how much money the university would lose not having the students here......
Well, it is how things work. So, not to forget, the semester began this weekend. It is really so many more people now. Masses moving all around.

Sunday

At the lab, doing this and thats. In the evening: American pie. The place is really so nice. They have like more than 5 thousand movies, there are also many interesting books and games. And
all the hats and masks you can wear if you are feeling like doing it. You can also write on the walls. Cool people!

Saturday

"sightseeing", north pagoda and a war cemetery.





Tried one of the hairdresser here at the campus, almost 2 hours and only 10 RMBs later, i got a new hair! amazing, it has never been so smooth and waveless....
Tired, decided to skip the dinner with the other westerns near the old campus. There will be other opportunities.

Friday

Nothing different happened, not so productive, things going slowly....watched movies.

Thursday

Unusual lunch "outside". Hot pot. Huoguo. Interesting talks about Chinese culture and
traditions. Corrected Oli´s article. Some literature research. At home, wanted to watch
natural born killers, but the dvd was not working. :-( Oh, it is almost weekend again.

Wednesday

Talked with Dr. Gehring, the other CIM specialist here in Sy. Normal day, finally i have internet.
Went with the girls to visit the Sy Normal University (hey, do you ask yourself if my only sightseeing are universities?!?!) Huge, bigger than the other two.


Lots of girls, they have music, cinema, business, arts courses, and it is also not so old campus, 5 year or so.Had dinner in one of the 5 restaurants from the campus, and walked back to the lab. hey, i bought a plant, still don't know if i keep it here in the lab, or take home!