My semester at the Chinese University of Hong-Kong is ending soon, and my flight back to France is scheduled for the 4th of January. While my come back to France will be a huge mess (no permanent place to stay, new job starting three days after my arrival), I would like to keep enjoying China here !

I spent last week-end in Zhuhai, Guangdong province to see my friend Alexandre Imperatori (you can visit his website on www.alexandreimperatori.com) racing on a Formula 3 with the Asian Racing Team. Yes he won the course but I missed it on sunday, so I could assist only at the race on saturday. Zhuhai is a very nice place, although nobody is speaking english there. So I tried to survived with my chinese … and I think it was ok, I got a new hair cut, bought some stuff for me and presents for my family.

Then, on monday and tuesday, we worked with the french style: finishing a project within one night. Yes it worked, we are quite happy with it, but the teacher wasn’t lol … Actually I am not sure you can find someone in France able to develop a whole search engine, without reusing any already made components, and dealing with all steps (crawling, indexing, searching) in 3 different programming languages (Python, Java, PHP/MySql/Ajax) in such a short laps of time … But yes of course the chinese guys have spent 15 days and nights on it, so yeah they might have some more features. Unfortunately they don’t have the same work load as we have (we follow twice more courses as they do, and we are postgraduate), without taking into account my part-time job and my different missions …

Then, yesterday I went to Shenzhen with Frank and Marouane. A lot of fun at the arcade gaming centre (yeah we finished Time Crisis 3, played Mario Kart, Maximum Tunes 2 and some other great games), then doing some shopping (buying some warm clothes for China and France). Most funny part of this day was the massage, when I had to translate the chinese from the girls to french for Marouane, and german for Frank, and english for both sometimes. Oh yes they say my chinese is useless because I cannot hold a discussion, but still sometimes I feel proud able to speak chinese and understand a little
Remark: I am very bad at DDR now, lol, but whatever it is not trendy anymore here ^^

Pictures have been uploaded, see the nice cars ^^
More fun in China soon