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Off to find my inner peace

I’m going back to Melbourne this week.

I’m so looking forward to leading a bit of a normal life for a while and working out what it is I want to do.

Daily life in Hefei is just too bizarre, not at all possible to make rational decisions while here I have decided.

Yesterday the intercom rang and I ignored it, as I usually do if I don’t recognise the person. Just a few minutes later my visitor was back with a guard, ringing again. I like and trust our lovely guards so answered just in case he had something important to tell me. The conversation went something along the lines of:

Hello?

Is anybody home?

Umm… no, there’s nobody home.

Ok (hangs up).

I’ve no idea who it was or why he enlisted the guard for help.

Not long after that, a girl from the washing machine company called and fired off a very rapid bunch of questions I didn’t understand a word of. Our washing machine has been “fixed” a number of times recently and each time I have got what I assume is a follow up call from the company to check all is well.

Generally once the caller realises I am clearly not fluent in Chinese, they ask a few simple questions, I give a few simple answers and I am left feeling quite impressed with my ability to hold a phone conversation in Chinese.

After a few attempts at answering”Washing machine, good” to each of yesterday’s long incomprehensible questions and not succeeding in making my caller go away, I decided instead to reply to each question with long English phrases. Strangely enough, she wasn’t put off and we had quite a long conversation about who-knows-what.

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Comments

xin | December 11th, 2007 | 11:52 am

i guess sometimes we get lost within ourselves no matter where or what. find light soon i’m sure you will!

Tracy | December 12th, 2007 | 4:14 pm

I hope you will enjoy your journey back to Melbourne! Bizarre life, hehe, very interesting

Nessa | December 17th, 2007 | 8:00 pm

Have a pleasant trip home:) So, will you be celebrating Christmas in Melbourne then?

lijunlaopo | December 19th, 2007 | 10:39 pm

Thanks Xin, things are definitely looking brighter here!!

Hello Tracy, at least Hefei is always amusing ha ha.

Nessa, thank-you I’ll he here for Christmas, and New Year, and my birthday… and who knows what else. hehe

balinbandara | December 2nd, 2008 | 6:24 pm

Hope your trip goes well and enjoy well.I like your photos well.Let me know your experiences of the trip..

Hotels in Rome | December 3rd, 2008 | 9:38 pm

very interesting blog. It is a shame that it is not updated.

Po Kerbon, US Coder | December 5th, 2008 | 6:11 am

If there is no sufficient reason for something about the world (any event, fact, and so on… in the world), then that something can’t be fully understood. (because understanding it requires understanding why it happened, why it is as it is, and the answers of those things are sufficient reasons)

Flena | December 23rd, 2008 | 6:22 pm

Its a nice journey that every one should experienced..I used to rome around the world as i like enjoying..

Meendaal | January 6th, 2009 | 4:16 pm

Very interesting to read about the trip you had with..It was reminding my past trip which i enjoyed a lot similar to this here..

GiveBackToYourself | January 15th, 2009 | 4:44 pm

Is there such a thing as inner peace?

Can we really forget everything and just love ourselves and be calm and content?

Jenny | February 10th, 2009 | 5:39 pm

Though it was incompressible we need to care of our life’s. Though it might get the condition worse we need to do more research on it.

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