Life and Travel in China

"The Chinese love Kubica" - this is the title in the Polish press, I also love Kubica and I am waiting for his successes in the middle country, good luck in Shanghai! I like the fact that BMW is promoting itself, and Mr. Kubica reaches out to ordinary people in Beijing and shows them his kindness, he is friendly, they perceive him very positively and will remember that it is the Pole who is so cool, no one else! It was similar with Mr. Pudzianowski, when the Strong Man competition was held in China a year ago in Chengdu, the Chinese were giving him high fives and getting excited about his achievements.

If the average Pole spent the time spent on political discussions and complaining on his job and did what he should be doing, we would be living in Eldorado! In China, most people are not interested in politics. Here everyone does their own thing, works hard and that's why it's getting better every day, incredible progress and development. I suggest the same! Let's get on with our work and let politicians discuss and choose themselves, that's the best. And when (God bless you) the president tells me today during the scandal with MP Beger that unemployment is falling, he probably means those thousands of young people who left the country, just like me, and changed the statistics. All politicians are worthless, you have to ignore them and do your job!!!

Kubica in Shanghai ended up in an unlucky 13th position. At the beginning he lost his position and dropped from starting number 9 to 17th place. Despite everything, he did great and halfway through the race he was already 5th. Problems appeared after the first visit to the pitstop, because our driver completely lost control of the vehicle and his car drove for one lap as if it were on ice (it was raining almost all the time). Even if I saw the wet track in Shanghai on TV, I wouldn't give Kubica dry tires, whose idea is that? Still, you can be proud of his driving! If it weren't for tire problems and having to pit three times, the Pole would have been in the top five.

Today is the mooncake festival in China, which has a bit of history behind it. The legendary beauty left her beloved and flew to the Moon, she wanted to live forever and is said to be living on the Moon to this day. The Chinese started giving each other cookies a month earlier. They all taste similar, but differ in brands and packaging (metal boxes, forks included, cookies in separate boxes). Prices for such a set of 4-6 cakes can reach up to 400-500 RMB. It is difficult to compare them to Polish sweets. They have the shape of a rectangular block, on the outside there is baked dough and some Chinese symbols and patterns, inside there is fruit mass (not always), and inside there is a whole cooked egg yolk. The worst, however, are the shrimp and fish flavored cookies with a nasty smell. Moon cakes are very filling and one can fill you up for half a day.

I saw an unusual scene today. A guy getting off the train found 20 RMB (about PLN 8) on the stairs. He looked at his friend from the side and said he knew who it was. He started calling the guy who got off in front of him some time ago. The guy was already leaving the platform and going down the stairs, but the other guy heard the call and turned around, then the finder asked the guy to call the other guy. When he turned around, he gave him the 20 RMB. It may seem like nothing, but who would do that today? Most people would hide the banknote and pretend nothing happened.