Another two weeks have passed since I last shared my experiences and we went on a second exciting trip outside of Shanghai to the south of China, which I will for sure write about in detail during the next days, but before I would like to share some everyday life experiences. One big daily topic is the food :) For breakfast we have decided to live on cereals to start the day with something familiar. We also have a lot of bakeries here, but of course they don't offer our good German rolls and bread. Instead there is a great variety of soft rolls and some sweets that are hard to identfy. To survive the rest of the day being a vegetarian is not easy. I thought it would be possible to just get rice with vegetables on every corner, but most of the dishes still have some kind of meat in them. If I try to order something without meat it's always difficult to communicate this knowing just a few words in Chinese. But something very nice, cheap and convenient are the night markets that can be found on most streets during lunch and dinner time, where you can get all kinds of meat, fish and most importantly vegetables :)
Some more impressons of everyday life are the following: little kids having a hole in their trousers so that they can easily do their business, or their parents holding them over trash cans for this, a lot of motorcycles everywhere, clothes hanging outside the house to dry, people sleeping in the middle of a busy street, cramed vehicles, food being sold on those little stalls on the street, a huddle of electric cables, crowded places with the Chinese standing very close to each other without keeping that natural distance that we would feel comfortable with and elderly playing cards on the pavement.
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