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We are once again sending out a sign of life. It's been more than 5 whole weeks since we've had any news from us. I've already written about how quickly time flies here. In the meantime, I have also decided to continue writing in first-person mode. It's much easier for me than writing about myself in the 3rd person. So from now on you will only read about me, Anja, in the first person. If Denny also feels like writing about his experiences personally, we will clearly mark tha

Yes, what is it actually? Correct is Hainan. But it is also true that it is called the Hawaii of China. And I think rightly so. In terms of landscape. I haven't been to Hawaii yet, but what I've seen on photos so far: green mountains and sea. Hainan also has green mountains and sea, only the waves are a bit smaller. Jana and I (Jana is the wife of one of Denny's work colleagues) flew to the south of China for 8 days. If you want to know exactly: here . Direct flights are only

And bang, the holiday is over again. Why is it that holidays are always over faster than the same number of working days? What have we been up to the last few days? Many have already seen it, but here it is again in super-duper luxury quality. Our ski video: So we went skiing and then spent the rest of the time on the computer editing the video... ? No, not quite. In between we were out and about again, including getting stuck in the snow, once again. But everything in orde

You think we are late or overslept? No, the Chinese celebrated "New Year's Eve" only yesterday. It's not called New Year's Eve here, but Chinese New Year or Spring Festival. You could think it was the last festival they celebrate... It's our first spring festival here, so we have no comparison, but they really do fire up something here, it's really hard to believe. For days now, the advance firecrackers have been increasing steadily, culminating yesterday in continuous thunde

Denny's conclusion What's going well, what's not going so well, what's going as expected, what's not, would I choose China again today - a little interim conclusion. Work Basically, I am looking after similar and partly the same products here in China as I already know from my previous job in Braunschweig: Chassis components, mainly welded assemblies and their individual parts. VW FAW is a joint venture and is 60% owned by VW and 40% by FAW, China's oldest car manufacturer. T