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Hey Everyone,

I left China early last Monday morning, arrived in Frankfurt Monday night, and I've been in Heidelberg for two days. Everything went smooth, I had some close friends see me off at the airport in Shanghai and I had some close friends ( +mother ) pick me up here, which made me really happy.
So these were my 10 months. I didn't work that much, still learned a lot. They say you go to China in order to study the language in a natural environment, which wasn't really the case for me - most people I spent my time with were foreigners after all. I still made progress, I passed my HSK & my exams. The exposure to 'real' Chinese life fell a little short, but that's to be expected if one lives in a city like Shanghai. That's okay. Anyhow, I'm really glad I met all the people I met, they made my stay special and memorable. I don't know with how many of them I'll still be talking in 3 months, a year, ten years, but I hope it's not going to be too few. I don't want to give a long account of what I experienced in this year, much of it can be found just a couple of posts back. If you have the chance to go to China -  take it! No need to stay for a whole year, it's an exciting place to be even if only for a week or so.
Thank you everybody for reading, this concludes my China story ( for now! ).
Be in touch, people!