Thursday, I finally went to the forbidden city, which was the most interesting compared to all other historical places I had been to before. I rent myself an auto guide and listened to the stories carefully. Mostly, the stories were about intrigues including cheating, jealousy, killing, and daily life. Furthermore, I have also learned the various functions of all pavilions, many of which include rituals. One more interesting thing was the transportation of heavy stone panels for over 600 years. They dug holes every 500 meters to create a path of frozen water sliding the stone over 50 kilometers to Beijing. Anyway, I just show you the pictures as it is way too much to talk about.
Really nice morning 
It was not so crowded 
Auto guide with electronic map 
This is the stone plate I talked before 
Entering the garden 
For every building there is a lion “protecting” it 
You can imagine how huge this place is 
Entering the clock tower 
And of course there is also a museum with ancient weapons 
Sadly, most of the doors were locked, so the gps did not trigger for some points 
Everywhere are dragons 
Art gallery 
I couldn’t help myself and had to buy an expensive lunch 
After 5 hours, I finally left that place 
Last week, I finished the Web Mining class, and Introduction to Radar Systems started. This course is much better than the others. The quality, as well as the learning rate, is tremendous. It is a combination of lectures and exercises. In this lecture, we learn the theory and in the exercise class, we have to implement several things in MatLab.
Web mining course 
Lecture 
Experimental class
We decided to go to Japan on the 17th of November for four days. So, I had to organize a new reentry for China in the exit and entry service center. To go there it took about one hour. In combination with waiting, it resulted in wasting half of a day.
We also had to make pass photos 
We visited some bars and we spent Halloween in a Club. I also improved my skills in negotiating again. I have done pretty well as I bought two pairs (Nike Frees and Chucks) of shoes for roundabout 40€ and a warm jacket for 22€.
We went to a bar another day 
Flunkyball before going in club 
Again in silk market 
Doner
The rest of my time I spent with programming, doing homework, doing sports, and playing with my roommates and neighbors on my Nintendo Switch. Yesterday, I also joined a Pilates course. The trainer pushed hardly. Every time I was not able to do one more movement, she clapped her hands multiple times and looked really serious at me, haha. Right now, I am planning my next trip to the great wall.
Early version – I’m nearly finished 
Table tennis 
Playing switch 
Favorite dish 
Milktea
Comments: 2
Hallo Rene,
haben eben mal wieder in deinen Blog geschaut… bin ehrlich, war länger nicht mehr drin, weil wir mit der Renovierung von Schwiegerelterns Haus, wo unsere Kinder jetzt wohnen, immerzu beschäftigt sind.
Hast tolle Fotos reingestellt… das große Gebäude kenne ich noch von den Fotos meiner Tochter. Sie war vor ca. 5- 6 Jahren auch in China, allerdings im Norden, in Chang Chung. Dort hatte damals der Vater von ihrem, inzwischen Ex- Freund von VW aus 3 Jahre gearbeitet.
Hast Dich inzwischen bestimmt schon gut eingelebt… hast ja schon bald “Bergfest”, oder bist sogar schon drüber!?
Hatten heute Abend langen Donnerstag, davor aber das “Ständchen” von Wise Guys geübt, um mal den Text auf die Notenwerte zu bringen…
So, muss nun ins Bett… s’ ist in Deutschland schon gleich 24 Uhr!
Freue mich auf weitere Fotos von Dir und wünsch Dir eine schöne Zeit dort mit vielen tollen Momenten 😉
Liabs Griaßle Margit
Hi Margit, kein Problem, die Artikel verschwinden ja nicht einfach! Danke für deinen Kommentar. 🙂
Tatsächlich ist es wirklich nicht mehr lang. In 3 Wochen schreibe ich meine letzte Klausur, dann reise ich zwei Monate und dann bin ich schon wieder in Deutschland.
Wünsche euch weiterhin schöne Proben und dir auch alles Gute! 🙂