Living (in) China: They can`t stop me.

Hey everyone.
Really it is so difficult just to write blog from China. It is another time when i had to change my blog address. Fortunately by buying VPN account, i can start using again my old blog. No one will stop me from writing news from here :D.

So...
Many things happened until now. The most important is that i will stay in Danyang at least until july-august. I was thinking to move to another, bigger city but my boss convinced me, with higher salary and that i will get promoted! to stay here in Danyang. From January, my position will be called not GRO(guest relation officer) but Hotel Ambassador. It means that i will be a supervisor to GRO and Bellboys and i will focus on what i do the best which is to keep good relations mostly with foreigners. Because of foreigners`s compliments toward me and their satisfaction concerning service, my boss awarded me with new position. It is very nice, especially that i i work here only 4 months.

The second good thing is that i am coming back to Poland for CHRISTMAS!!!!! I said to my boss that christmas time is very important for me and if it is possible to go back to Poland for this time, she accepted it and i will be in Poland for 27 days!!!! I have already booked my tickets, so the exact dates are: 20.12.2013-15.12.2014. You can already plan to meet me this time!!!

So as you can read, everything goes well. I am happy everyday, my work is a pleasure for me(ok, sometimes boring).

You know... there are few things that i do not like in China, and i am not talking about the environment.
For example i hate when chinese try to cheat me. Here in China, when they see a foreigner, almost always they give you a higher price. And i had this situation twice. Once it was when i needed to buy a charger to my mobile phone. I went to one small shop and i asked how much, he said that not original one, costs 150 rmb!!!(70 zł). I just said thank you and went to another. In another shop, it was only 15 rmb (7 zł). Not easy life, right? Another time i needed to go to cut my hair. 2 months ago i went to hairdresser with my chinese teacher. I had to pay 38 rmb. When i went there alone, they wanted 58 rmb! but because i was angry and i didnt want to pay so much, i wrote them in translator on my mobile phone that the last time i paid only 38rmb. Guess what? She said ok, i had to pay only 38 rmb. So it is like they want you to pay more but if you have a problem with that, you dont have to. Crazy.

What i really do not like in chinese boys is their appearance. Normally if you work in 5star hotel, you should look professional. Not in China... Boys wear white or colorful socks to suit and ALL OF THEM have longer nails than women! It looks awful.

But what i really like is how people treat each other in the hotel. All of staff seems to be very close to each other. For example person who is cleaning, you call her AI(which means aunt). Generally chinese people use it, the same with man. Sometimes when i see a mother with a small baby, she says to her child "look, it is shushu(uncle). I really like this chinese politeness

My chinese is better and better. I have 3 lessons a week, i made a big progress and now i can have basic conversations in Chinese :D. It is so funny when chinese see me, say something about me and i reply to them :D They feel so shy embarrassed.

I have really perfect relations with foreign customers. All of them who are staying for a longer time, are my friends. Few days ago i met one girl from Uruguay. She was alone so i proposed her to go for a beer together. I wanted to go to the bar that i already knew, i did not remember the name of it so i asked my colleague. He wrote me the name but when we got out from a taxi, it turned out that it was not this bar... Never mind we said. We went to a small bar(5 maybe 6 tables). The owner was so shocked that foreigners found her bar(the owner is 24 years old). She gave us some beers for free and when we said that we want to go to another bar- she CLOSED her bar and she went with us. After we spent some time in another bar, she offered us to go back to her bar and drinks some more beers. THis could happen only in China.

I will try to give you some news more often. Hopefully it will be possible and my blog will work.