a nomad’s travel clutter.

I wrote a whole long entry, and then my uncle accidentally closed the window. I had not saved. …>_< ... I will make it short now, because me and Julian are going out soon, to check out Wuxi's nightlife. So my feelings towards coming back to China with Julian. There are no problems, the problems I thought might be problems were like cultural differences (bad fart jokes from the chinese side and so on) and also the whole bringing the first boyfriend to your BIG family thing. But none of those were any problem, the only thing was the language. Well, I did think that would be a problem. I feel like my head is on the verge of exploding with all the language and dialects. I speak Swedish with Julian, because we are used to it, but we have to speak English if someone can understand at least a word. Then I speak Wuxi dialect with my family, but other people also speak Mandarin. So I have this four swimming in my head all trying to connect with each other. There's also the attention thing. I try my best to translate everything for Julian, but then when three other relatives are talking different things to me at the same time, maybe I "ignore" him a little. He's very sensitive to that. Anyway. It becomes that I have to speak double amount and sometims have so many different things in my head. But it's wonderful when you get time alone, when we went shopping yesterday for example. He bought 4 shirts, 1 shorts and I got some clothes and a back pack. We had all afternoon just with each other, and I could devote full attention to him. The thing is not everyday can be like that when you live at home. At home it's family. That's what makes this trip a little different, we have like moved from home in Sweden to home in China. At least for 10 days. Usually when we travel, we go to a place, do as much as we can and then leave... but now we've had plenty of time, and some times even afternoons at home with nothing much to do. However all that will end tomorrow when we will visit Ma Mountain to see the Lin Shan Buddha (more update on that), and on Sunday we are off to Hangzhou and then round trip with Em and Jen. So no more home days for us. I'm really used to living here, it amazes me how fast I forget the dirt on the floor and small stands along the road. Also the stares that we receive, they seem to diminish day by day. It really feels like home, except so much more rei-nao (hot noise) and cramped. I think Julian's gotten use to things too... except for the language. My grandma keeps saying how she wishes she could talk to him, but it's impossible. There's no way to understand. See, language can be a great barrier for understanding. Haha. I was gonna keep myself short. Good luck to that, now I'm done... have to check on how Julian's doing again. ^_^
Sunset tonight, photoed by my uncle. The colors are not fake! Also just to add a little what we did today, we had lunch in a Si Chuan restaurant with my kindergarten teacher and then I cut my hair. Nothing fancy, just a little thinner and shorter.

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