Happy New Year!

Quick update from the countryside. I spent the last days in the village where we celebrated the new year. It was nice, but the thing I will probably remember the most is the fact that I got food poisened. Not to complain too much about my friend's mothers cooking, but it was probably more than a foreigners stumach could take... So it's been a hard couple of days.

In a few hours I'm leaving for Nanning on the border to Vietnam. Roughly a 30 hours train ride, which I frankly don't really look forward to considered it will be spent on hard seats. We will bring a set of chinese chess, that none of us know how to play. But something tells me that we will know the basics after the train ride...