IKEA in China!!
Today has been an event full day me and Jomante decided that it was time to pay a visit to IKEA mostly just to by some necessities and to go to the food store. After a week here I am missing my usual breakfast home i always had the same natural yoghurt with müsly and something more like tea, juse or knäckebröd with cheese. Here yoghurt is not to be found, have not found cheese or butter ether, but I need to investigate this further where if possible to find it here maybe wall-makt .
To get to IKEA we got a note from one of our classmates with the directions how to get there in Chinese and English. After some help from a police officer and two pedestrian that got in to a shouting contest discussing the best way to point us in (to find somebody that speaks English here is like winning the lottery) we found the bus. After getting on the bus and paying the 0.2€ that the buss cost and riding it for aprox 25min we were starting to get nervous if we have missed the right stop. So after first being told to get off then being called back on to the buss and then 4 women got in to a heated argument where it was best for us to get of (the people are very loud when they discuss anything here but always very helpful). We found IKEA there was no chance we would have missed the stop we could spot the signs several hundred meters in advance before the bus stopped to let us of.
On the outside everything was a s normal except the Chinese signs under the name, a yellow and blue box building. Well inside the mix of Swedish, English and Chinese was a quite amusing sight. We manage to get some of the important things that we have been missing here like towels for the shower, al the towels we have seen outside Ikea are in the size of kitchen towels. A new toilet seat, a lamp for the desk and Knäckebröd, both me and Jomante went a bit crazy at the food section!
After getting back from IKEA we had to go and apply for our visa and pick up or medical exam report and chest x-ray. As usual whit any paper work here in china it is five different tills that you need to queue fore since every till just dose one thing. Have to go back on the 18th to pick up the updated visa and my passport!
Then I had to go and pick up ure head teacher from Sweden at the airport he will be here now for one week to evaluate the program and discuss how to improve the course.
