Coming and going.

My last blog dated from a week ago, time to update once again. Lately, I've been updating this blog weekly because I have more time and I occasionally think about it. I don't really go out anymore during the week, the main reason is because I need to save some money for back in Europe. It's a fact! I'll be in Paris from the 28th of June till 4th of July. Hence, I need at least some couple of hundreds Euro's and it's not like I'll be home for a couple of weeks to get the money. Which means, spend less here in Beijing and enjoy Paris till the fullest. We're meeting some friends in Paris that we met here in Beijing. I think it's so awesome that we all meet up in France and hang out for one week. Some people representing Germany, England, France and ofcourse Belgium. I'll be going with my favorite Limburger, Ward, a guy I also met here in Beijing in November '11. We'll be staying at our friends their apartment/home and I am really looking forward to it. Some of them I just saw a month ago, but some of them I haven't seen in 6 months. 

My last 2 weeks in Beijing have started, mixed feelings though. I'm really happy that I'm going home, 10 months away from home is a quite long time. I know some people don't really understand why I'm so anxious  for going home, but I barely hear my parents on the phone. Indeed, we don't even use Skype, they call me twice a month for about 10mins and that's about it. Why they don't use Skype is ... they have no f*cking idea how to use it, they can barely start a computer, lol. In those 10 months I've seen my parents twice through Skype. My little brother is also quite busy with school, he's in his master year and he isn't home often, only during the weekend and during the weekend I'm usually not home. Don't forget the 6hours of time difference. So, that's why I'm excited to see them again, not only my parents and my brother, but also my 2 little cousins, the twins. Every time when we're on the phone, I just want to hug them to death. Play games with them, reading stories before they go to bed, go to the store with them and every time they get me that far to buy some toys. The daily stuff that I used to do with/for them. They're already 7 and I can't believe I've missed their birthday this January. I promised them I would buy a present and I did! I think they will love it, ofcourse I had to buy 2 the same .. Otherwise they'll fight for it and I know how it's going to end up. Both playing with one toy and the other one disappears in a closet. 

But I also realize, the less amount of days I have left here in Beijing, the more often I get a sad feeling about it. But I'm sure it's time for me to go home. I've noticed I haven't been enjoying Beijing that much than a couple of months ago. My mind is all set up for spending some months at home and just be able to do my stuff back in Belgium. Weird, but I'm really looking forward spending my weekends in the restaurant and just working. Before I came to Beijing, I did nothing else than that for 9 years. No, I didn't sleep in on Sundays till 2pm and spend the whole day in bed, but instead I woke up at 10am and started working around 11.30am till 8-9pm and headed towards my apt in Antwerp. I miss the little talks I had every weekend with the customers, I miss working with my parents and getting into arguments (especially with my mom) during work and being all f*cked up because of the pressure. I love it, lol. I miss arguing with my brother about idiotic stuff and trying to prove I'm right, if I'm not, still be damn convinced I'm right and he's wrong. Loads of people say, after their return to their country, they're bored after one month. I'm pretty sure the same will happen to me BUT it's summer when I head back home and I'll be quite busy with working and 'studying' Chinese. 

But let's talk about something else, I bet you're not really interested about my daily life back in Belgium. So, today's Giovanni's birthday. Yesterdaynight we had a surprise for him, we had a birthday cake dedicated to him! He was so anxious for clubbing, but we were all like "Come on Gio, we'll leave within 20mins, take it easy." 00.00am we dimmed the lights and started singing, he was pleasantly surprised, yayyy CAKE! Tonight we'll celebrate his birthday at Juicy. I know, in one of my previous blogs I said that Juicy was over and done, but ... tonight it's Ladiesnight and all the girls get 6 free drinks. Hopefully it isn't that crowded as on Wednesdays, but we'll figure it out tonight.

Now, the title of my blog is 'Coming and going', the coming is related to Sam's visit to Beijing tomorrow and the going is related to Giovanni's leaving this Sunday. Giovanni will be going back to the Netherlands after 9 months. Sam was also a student at the school and he moved to Shanghai (boohhh) in April and he'll be spending this weekend and next weekend in Beijing with us. Just perfect, would have hated it not seeing Sam before I go back to  Belgium. 

Well, thank you guys for reading this. It's time to log off.

I'll keep you updated.

Kisses from Beijing!