Chinese PBL

For the past week, I've been learning and living the Chinese culture. My Chinese name is Mán Sha and instead of saying hi, I say Ni hao. I've been cutting paper, cooking, singing, kong fu-ing, learning and talking.

But don't get me wrong, it sounds like a lot more fun than it was!

This is supposed to be a relaxing week, a break. Short days, time to catch up on lost work and sleep. On Wednesday, I was doing Tai Chi Chuan for 5 hours or so. It was fun for the first hour, but so boring afterwards. At 5pm we had to meet again and cook and we didn't eat until 8pm. All other PBL last for about 4 or 5 hours everyday, and if the go longer, they only go from Monday-Thursday or something like that. Thursday we did Tai Chi Chuan again, but convinced our teacher to do Kong Fu instead, since we had a Kong Fu show last night. That was a lot more fun.

Today we did Tai Chi again. Over and over.

It has been fine though.

A lot of people have been off campus for their PBLs, so it's been quiet and relaxing. Now people are slowly coming back, which is also nice, because we have missed them a lot in just a couple of days. It's weird when you're used to being around them all the time.

Here's a picture from our show last night. (From left: Kristoffer, me and Ahmad)

Fun fact: if you put together the characters for a horse and a pregnant woman, you get mother. If you put three trees together, you get a forest, because tree of something means a lot.

Zái Jián from Norway! :)