Time flies
I can not believe that this semester will already be finished in about 4 weeks. Especially in between all those language students and foreign students who do their complete studies in China after learning the Chinese language for one year, my one semester seems like a short study trip to another country. Time is running fast here and I feel, the coming three months will be over sooner than I can imagine.
By the way, now it is official: I will stay about two months longer in China than originally planned, because of an internship at Bosch in Wuxi (starting on the 14th of July), that I append to my stay in Shanghai. I will try to rebook my flight back to Germany to the 4th of September 2008, which is the last day before my visa will expire. Unfortunately, the Autumn semester in Mannheim will begin on the 1st of September, which is why I will have approximately… well… 0 days holiday this summer. I really hope that the internship will be cool 
In recent times I finally started with preparing for all of my courses. Two of my four courses are taught in Chinese, so I have no major benefit from visiting the lectures (although I do visit one of them because my friends Luo Qi and Jamy are attending it, too ). Of course, I can write the exams in English and since the plan is to learn the content from (English) books in self-study, the first months I was more occupied with travelling, visiting places, having guests and learning Chinese than with learning for exams three or four months ahead.
Since the Chinese courses are smaller and Chinese students have between 8 and 12 courses per semester, and me only four, I should be able to master these assignments after some preparation time. The two Chinese courses require their students to write a paper or report, which is to be handed in the end of June. Since this is a new form of exam to me, I will have to ask some other students how to do it.
Since I planned to not travel any more (and by the way also decrease the time of me Chinese studies) and concentrate on studying for my major courses now, there are just some single topics that I want to post some photos of.
First, as requested from my family, some photos from the exhibition of clothes dyeing industries, where I helped a prospective magazine publishing company to represent themselves and also made an interview with the China director of the world’s largest clothes dyeing company (he is German by the way).
Next, some pictures of my Tae-Kwon-Do test for the yellow belt, which I fortunately passed (don’t ask me how 
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And finally, a video of me in the Tai Chi Chuan (太极拳 Tài Jí Quán) examination (yes, I will get a nice certificate for this ).