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...