The World is my Home!

Because I don't feel any nationality!
Because the life is too short to keep still!
Because I want have friends from everywhere!
Because travel and know new places and people is my first priority!
Because I'm born in Italy , studied in Belgium worked in China and States but it's not enough!
Because before to leave my life I want to see as much as possible!
Becuase Italy for me is too small!

Because someone before me said:
"Je veux être appelé Citoyen du Monde"
Erasme (16th. Century)

White Sanmen!

Wher's the Christmas?
I was so sad to dont' see any Christmas tree or Santa Claus but the wheather helped to me to get back my Christmas Spirit!




This morning I wake up and I found the roads, lawns and all the hills around completely white!!
I cannot believe Sanmen saw the snow before of the Italy

干杯! Cheers!

Concert , Disco, pub or festival doesn’t matter what it’s important is to drink!
Drink a lot and quickly is a priority inside these crowded places..
And believe me those place can be very crowded!!



So in less than one hour any place become more livable because many guys already drunk goes to home early..
I’m been at Banana Club, in Beijing, at the M2 and Paulaner at Shanghai, at the International Beer Festival in Qindgao or to the classic Irish in Hong Kong and the story is always the same.
So bring a lot of patience with you and you can enjoy all the nights, also in China!
And what about Chinese guys.. If you like feel as a movies star is perfect! Prepare of yourself to make a lot of pictures with them and touch glasses with everybody..
... for my opinion is really funny!

Beijing part I

Ok, Leaving from Sanmen at midday to get Capital airport at dinner time (Italian dinner time!! 2030) after 45min by van, 40min by train, 25 min by taxi again and finally 2.5 hours by plain with all the relative waiting times..
The Hotel was pretty nice but we changed the room to get one with Forbidden city view .. very Nice!



However it was so late and we were without dinner yet so we decided to walk around the hotel and try to find some opened restaurant, so we went to the Tiananmen square and unless the beautiful view of the most famous plaza we didn't find any food.. sigh.




Time was running.. so we came back to the hotel and walked toward the shopping area.. Unfortunately the only place opened was a Chinese restaurant with many tables on the streets that it didn’t look so clean and tasty.
Giulia and another group of western people persuaded me to get a dinner there.. I didn't know exactly what I ordered until I had my plates in front of me because the menu was in Chinese and the waiter was speaking only Chinese.



But in effect Giulia was right.. It's been the best Chinese restaurant that I tried and also now I didn't find a better one!!
Good food and the waiter was so amazing.. but also so friendly!! We came there again during the next days, specially to get picture with Oronzo (the waiter/owner).
You Know.. Every city has a place that looks very dirty but it's so nice.. Genoa has "da Maria", Rome has "La parolaccia" and Beijing has "Oronzo"!!

4 way Communication

“Yes, I want to maintain the original design!”
“NO, I think that keep the same design is better”
“Exactly, it’s was I was saying, I prefer to keep the original design for the connections and teh slab”
“Riccardo, for my opinion we should keep the same design”
“ Hey it's 15 minutes that we are saying the same sentence .. let's go ahead!"

Hany and the clock!

It was the June 3th. my first working day in Sanmen!
Meet bosses, meet colleagues, check office building and check the accommodation located at the Paul Palace hotel that was going to became my house for the next months.


First question: what kind of reasons for this hotel in Sanmen? I'm still waiting an answer now.. The hotel is beautiful and very big but it have a really bad kitchen!
Please, don't try western food unless the breakfast.




Second and third questions: What hell are you doing here In Sanmen? Why hell did you answer Yes?

No more questions..


Since I arrived finally in Sanmen with my story, I'm going to publish post without keeping an temporal order.
Anyway, the first day I meet also Hany, who will became my mentor for my first 30 chinese days up to his escape from Sanmen.




About the Clock??
I will have time to explain you better everything..

36 hours flying for 36 hours staying!

Never before I flied for so long time! I have been in New York with Giulia last Christmas but this time I started at Monday morning 7am thru Genoa-Paris-Shanghai-Qingdao to finally land at 230pm but a day after!!

My first impact with China was not so bad because Qingdao is pretty nice city on the Sea with several modern building and nice villas located on the North area in front of South Korea but about this we will discuss later. Also the airport is pretty nice that thanks to my colleague I saw many times to try to get his baggage lost on somewhere in China.
My Company thought that 36 hours to take relax, make all the medical examination and do request to the police office for the job permit was more than enough so on Thursday morning I was flying to Ningbo to get finally my destination....
Ningbo?

No No my final destination wasn't Ningbo but Sanmen, a very small city at 1.5 hours far from Ningbo by car toward South (or 30 minutes by train??); I lost most of the travel because I was sleeping but leaving Ningbo the chinese country was coming up to my eyes…

Many small houses, duck farmings, rice and cultivated fields and many small industries with chimneys everywhere; in spite this the views was very beautiful because a lot of green due to the rich vegetation that it’s typical of these areas with tropical clime in the South of China.

Last consideration: try to perform eyes medical examination with this table.. what you can say??

Baggage!

25 kilos plus 5 on board baggage weren't enough to bring with me all I need.
Specially because Giulia, my friends, my family and my town couldn't go inside.
But for a few seconds I really think to bring with me a part of all this.. or maybe a part that could remember me all this..


La Ciccia!

Yes, she's my Ciccia and since she's only 12 kilos and not more than half meter long I though to bring her with me and I like think, sometimes, about how my life in China could change with her!

What do you think about work in China?

During the weeks later the famous meeting I received request for my Curriculum Vitae in english language and after some days I received also the first official proposal: What do you think about work in China?
There's not any immediate response to these question but in some second I saw in front of me all the positive and negative aspects as my work experience, my salary and my carrier but also my friends, my family, my hometown and specially Giulia!
Honestly I tried to give a answer that couldn't bind me for future but in effect I never listened this question again.
Was december and Giulia was just graduated!


Only one more story before my departure..
It's about a phone call received on a friday morning, one of the so called "Ansaldo casual fridays". Was a guy speaking in english that want talk with me for a few minuets but not for a work issue.
The time indicated me that he wasn't call from the USA so probably from China??
Yes, that's right! He was calling me to test my english and in effect we didn't talk about work issue but sooner we started to talk about an italian rice recipe, about the pope's travelling and about the whether in my country. Don't ask me the next argument because he increased the level passing the minutes and the last question for me is a secret also now.
However since that day I have a nice picture of the zafferano rice on my desk provided kindly by my colleagues..

Welcome to China

Was about the end of November when during a normal business meeting I herad for the first time the word CHINA.
And now that it's exactly one year later I'm going to start to tell my best chinese experiences. Currently I'm writing from my office in Sanmen and I'm using the US internet connection becasue the Chinese Government not allow many websites as Blogger, you tube and others. Today is Sunday and I came to work for a few hours so now I have some free time to take care my blog.

But let's continue to tell since the beginning...