I’m in Hanoi. Despite having one of the highest air pollution in the world, this city is fantastic for my SEAsia come back. Wait, did I write “come back”? Yes! If you keep track on my where page (link’s at the bottom), you could notice I visited Russia for the first time in the last two years. I had urgent paper work to do. In Russia I visited my family and met people I haven’t seen since studying. At last, I had two precisely planned one-day stopovers in Moscow in Hong Kong.
In Moscow, I’ve had a chance to meet with a HSE university group. I’ve never met some of them before but I’ve been reading their Telegram channels a few years ago imagining that one day I have to visit Moscow to ask for an invite to one of their cozy meeting. This time I was having a layover from morning to evening and a cheeky message leaded to an almost 4 hour lunch with this exact gang! I had fun and unexpectedly deep conversations, and even though I’ll probably never meet most of these people again, it made my day special.
Then, I arrived Hong Kong. I’m struggling to finish a Russian blog-post with random pictures from my trip. To be short, this city turned out to be much less serious and fancy as I thought. Their land situation is CRAZY, and poorly googled explanation is upsetting (prices are intentionally outbalanced by government) but public transport and plenty of great food made me wanting to get back to the city.
So, now I’m in a city where people eat dogs and breath motorbike emissions. These parts are bad, others are nice. I walk (with the mask), I’ve found my favourite tea house with an awesome woman owner, and I’m utilising my climbing membership twice per week.
Although, somewhen in 10 days I’m planning to move to Da Nang. There’re beaches, close people coming… Any my birthday!
My Chinese is improving with a better pace but I’m still not quite happy with my progress. I still struggle to make my own Anki decks because typing Hanzi (this “这”) and pinyin with tone marks (this “zhè”) is hard. Oh, nevermind! I’ve just found a way to configure my input method for these tone marks. Wǒ hěn kù!
In the next month, I’m planning to celebrate my birthday, publish my secret winter project, memorize whole HSK1 vocabulary to a perfect level and start with HSK2. Oh, also seems like I’m heading to Hong Kong for another one-day trip! More about it later.
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