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Dear Familiy and FRIENDS,

oh it took me a little longer to write the second impression on my stay in Beijing.
troubled by a computer that doesn’t understand mandarin.
It also catched a cold just like me…
The cold design of the CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts) building reflects itself also in the temperature.
The building is still not heated and in the office aswell as the dormitory temperatures won’t rise 15 degrees.
Many thinks are wondering me so i’ve got enough distraction to not be really bothered by it.
Like the bicylce. It is really true. I bought a new bike for the amount of 13 euro.
And the brand is very promissing. It is called superbicycle.
So i’m sure I bought the right one. Is it? well…..
The first stormy day was last sunday. A temperature drop of over 15 degrees (that might explain my cold)
and at the same time it was sunny and beautiful.
All bikes were blown to the earth or from the earth to anotherplace.
My superbicycle also chose a more aerodynamic position with the result that the brake broke.
it litterally had fallen of. The right handle had fallen of. Really completely.
So i went back to the bicycle shop to ask if there was any explanation for that.
Well I couldn’t get the complete essence of the story but with 30 yuan it would be fixed again.
I decided to let the man do the repair and he kindly suggested me to
go shopping meanwhile. I followed his advice and I got a lot of new clothes.
In the back of my head, i was wondering if the clothes can handle the same stormy
weather as good as the superbicycle, or if I should be more precautious and spend a bit more into what we call quality?

Imagine i get 1 year warranty on the superbicycle. I’m imagining how many times of
this one year would be spending at this bicylce shop, and how much the superbicycle
will cost me in the end….
Just take the superbicycle and use it till it is not super anymore is my strategy and
therefore I drove again across the whole city today. It is super!
Seeing the city in with this speed. Smelling the restaurants. Listening to the other
sounds of the city and be able to stop at any place you like.
Beijing amazes. How many building can be build at the same time? Who is going to move in and at what frequency…
Who is going to pay al these rents which are not fairly adopted to the average income….
Many wonders and many questions will remain and rise throughout the next weeks.

Housing was a topic this week. I was looking with the help of a. to find a great place to stay.
O.k. it is difficult to get a short term hudong house which I was invited to see in another occasion.
But fairly enough there are many appartments with great views! (due to the enormous amount of skyscrapers I understate..)
I decided to be resident at the CAFA dormitory afterall. That might has todo with the shortest way to the office.
It takes me 1,5 minutes to reach the office and that is really convinient, and I can concentrate on all the other things.

My first concert at the bar called “2 collegues” was a great succes!
The sound of my new braun sound shaver was smashing the audience.
They never saw somebody shaving his beard without any loss of hair! I’m still waiting for photos on that because
i couldn’t see what the audience saw and somebody from the bar was shooting it all!
Though actually compared to the lecture I was asked to do at the city school of design it was just a fart. (excuse me the word but it is popping up to me)
The lecture was hilarious. After 1.5 hours of translated talking about 150 students came up to me and wanted a signature at the same time!
I was overwellmed. Happily i had my signature with email and phonenumber on a self-inking-stamp so within 5 minutes the rush was over.
But waw it felt like a real rockstar! Hope I get a lot of visitors and costumers on my website now! (they asked where one could by my music, bags, etc)

Something else. I found a really interesting invention in almost every room with a sink. The way to stop water running out is a turnable stop.
It’s a metal little round disk that turns like a bearing. Imagine like the trackball in a computermouse. There is a rubber ring around that disk to really
tighten the sinkshole. This is a really interesting design. Even more astonishing: in my room the rubber is missing although the disk is made for it and all the other rooms have it too. Dispite of all my expectations it still is watertight. This is a miracle! I’m astonished! How can it be watertight dispite of the rubber ring. And really I tested it. I left a lot of water in it this night and in the morning it was still at the same level. (and I assure you that nobody came into my room to fill this up last night)
WAW that’s the only expression I have. I wish this example is blindly copied by my superbicycle. Like if the tyres are missing It still drives comfortable.

Amazing.
This time I’ll include the photos about the a real chicken in the supermarket,
a concert I incredibly enjoyed at daihansi 798 from a ethnic minority of minor asia.
they played in major by the way.
part of the audience before the lecture. a lot of fire
extinguishers that where first delivered and then taken away again. the inside
of a PDA i used for the concert and the plastic coffeecup holder,
some more skyscrapers,
One man risking his life double. (repairing the powernet and that on top of
a very busy road, respect…) and last but not least my SUPERBICYCLE.

If you have any comment on what I definitly should do, which artist I should meet
or thing you really would like me to bring back/send back , just give me a hint.
Looking forward to hear from you! take care and all the best , till the next freshimpress.

best regards and feel free to forward this newsletter if you like.
PS look forward to the next fresh impress with a photo of the disk I was discribing!