Finally….  http://www.quick-xs.net/fawang/

Been a long day… Just a little unpacking to do and than – finaly – I can seep in my own bed again…

I try to update a link to photo-page ASAP…

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So here we are… At the moment it is 12:00 local time, Beijing is freezing! I just got up from a few hours of rest becouse I didn’t get much sleep in the train tonight, accept for tucking down twice for about half an hour, but I had to sit up all night.

When I arrived at Beijing railwaystation this morning I booked an Hotel at once at the station, verry convcenient, when I arrived the sun allready came up so I took breakfast after wich I lay down for a rest.

Next I am off to Tian’an Men (this must be the hystoric center of Beijing) and try to contact Yuan Yuan for I own her dinner… Tataa…

At the moment I am in Dengfeng City together with Wang Kai, local time is 14:16. I just took a shower and waiting till it is time to take a bus to Zhengzhou, where I get on the train to Beijing tonight.

If all goes well I will arrive in Beijing tomorrow morning at 06:00. So I hope I can find a hotel verry soon after arriving for it will be verry cold that early in Beijing… So wish me luck! (o:

Looking at the last days of a cold but exiting experience… Now in DengFeng, shopping a bit and realaxing in internet-cafe. Seems the reason for my phone to go down was the earthquake in Taiwan (http://www.nieuws.nl/443659).

So this afternoon and tomorrow, morning and afternoon, latest hours of training. 5 january I will depart for Beijing by night-train, takes 9 hours to get there. I will spend a day in Beijing and sleep over at some cheap hotel becouse the next morning I must check in at the airport before 10:00 hour. So this leaves me a whole day to visit some famous places in Beijing like the forbidden city and maybe see Panda-bears in the zoo…

Can’t wait to share my photo’s on the internet…

To everyone I love: Happy newyear!!!

Here it is still cold but the falen snow is starting to defrost… Most students have left the school, they are home for winter. Even the monk actually do not train in winter time, and not on sundays and feast-days, they even pay attetion to newyear here in Dengfeng all kinds of celabrations on the street.

Everything allright!! CU all later!

So now that the christmas days are over I am a little closer to going home and I must admit that I am looking forward to it allready. Life here is great though, but it is verry cold and foggy now, becouse of the mouisture the cold gets everywhere, so I am heaving a hard time keeping warm… damn…

I can’t use my mobile phone anymore, don’t know why… "Not allowed to provider"… Another damn…

Today I bought a little heater!!! Hope it wil make my room verry comfortable to change clothes is or to get up at night to go to the bathroom. This would realy improve the comfort of my stay here.

Next to this things are good. Which means, I am not bored and I feel my condition improve a little every day. Hope to keep that up! And in about ten minutes I am going to eat a realy good meat sandwich!! Yam Yam! )

/me wishes everyone merry Xmas!

Here is a picture of the main entreance of Fawang temple. You can see the surounding mountains are verry beautifull. I took some time to explore the temple and took a lot of pictures. After my return in Holland I will also upload them (On this website are some more pictures from Fawang temple; http://www.taiqi.ca/).

Training is not exactly as I expected but I am verry happy the way it goes. In general the students are half my age so I don’t train with them. It’s just me training under Wang Kai. It’s verry interesting becouse I get feedback all the time. I had a few day that I trained 6:30 – 7:10, 8:50 – 10:10, 10:30 – 11:30, 14:00 – 15:10, 15:30 – 16:30 and 18:30 – 19:30. Those where some long days. But now I dont do the first morning training no more and also no training in the afternoon, just an hour at night. The training sometimes is verry hard indead becouse flexibility as well as muscle power is required.

Today is no training day becouse students from another temple are visiting. I got up early and had the opertunity to go to Dengfeng, so here I am… behind the computer again. Maybe do some shopping later on and this afternoon hope to enjoy the sun in the temple. Usually its verry nice to sit in the sun in the afternoon, if you are wearing a sweater though…

Well yesterday I had a bit of a breakdown. During the afternoontraining stretching hurted as well as my whole body and I was willing to give everything up to go home. I felt verry unhappy being cold all the time, to having to go out in the cold in the middle of the night when I wanted to go to the bathroom (See how spoiled I am). It all took me verry much energy, so mainly all I did next to training and eating was sleeping. When I talked to Wang Kai about it he understood and we agreed on half time training for me from now on… 2:20 hour in the morning and 1 hour at night.