Already In Mongul , one of the millennial buddoni freshly redone I had that feeling that assails you when you see tour the Forbidden City restored Vantico color sanding it and painting red gold and blue, or when you're on the great wall and the bricks vdi redone, fresh concrete, tourists everywhere. However, Fengcheng also confirms another theory, that of Buddhism to China. Every monastery has a valuable tourist attraction on which wheel usually a good economy of people who sustain only by quesdto. So far nothing bad, but when you see the monks off tickets from 60-100 yuan or write text messages on cell phones, or selling huge candles "for peace and harmony" primaditutto you wonder if they are real, then giving the benefit of the doubt through you a thrill of sadness.

However, Fengcheng couple of hours away from Dandong bus. Once you get past the barrier and taxi drivers, bus, vendors of everything we reach the entrance. After seeing one or two small temples begin to climb, climb and climb. Among rocks smoothly climb ladders to allow to reach the top three "mountains", after climbing the first we've been through all the more or less in height. I must say I do a bit of physical activity without PM10 in Beijing enjoy in any case, the scene glimpse Fengcheng from one side, the other across the valley of a thousand temples (as it is called this place).

Here we are to climb, find temples in the rocks, the rocks, pass in the mountains in very narrow slits and enjoy the spectacle of Chinese gloves (for rocks), white trousers (very trendy as gross-rocks), scenes of panic on slopes greater than 50 cm. In short, a day of spirituality in the balance, good physical activity and sincere intercultural laughter.

I had to make selections for AIESEC something more than a week ago. Autumn, unified whole for Beijing, organized by the Logistics Committee at my university, four or five rooms each with three recruiters in committee, two days of fear.

Beyond that, I have talked with many students with the desire of going abroad, and despite the large lazy it was worth it because the people interviewing you always learn something. Most people here never went abroad, he has never read anything that was written in China, has rarely had the opportunity to converse with some stranger outside the hours of English. Natural that this often leads many people to express total naivete, lack of flexibility or only apparent cultural understanding. At that point, resizing the standards to which we are accustomed in Europe that, you try to select those that are truly a cut above those who more or at least give the benefit of the doubt.

I remain convinced, however, that all the Chinese who left for abroad experience, not many really immerse into another culture wondering why things (like the great Julian), because here everything is so different and so focused on nondetto, sull'indiretto, total number of behavioral standards that must be mildly shocking experience. It is extremely rude, just as an example of different perspectives, to go without saying "bye" while gargling (understatement) that are daily concerts in the streets are part of a series of actions are not encouraged, but not very convicted. A student (chemistry) that has been in Italy told me that Italians are not professional at the university because almost never wear the lab coats and goggles and laugh during the experiments. Go and explain what a spritz or what it means to focus on a concept rather than faxed page of a book on his head.

However, there are always those unique individuals you are striking for their head, the prospects for a way to deal with things. And having had a conversation was always a great pleasure. One of these, the trivially simple (and therefore potentially lethal) question, "why you want to go abroad," he replied: "I'm tired of always having the same outlook, the same interpretations, I want to see how the world out, I want to know different people and get an idea from me ... a global perspective, a way of looking at things globally. And I also have a stomach global "" Global stomach? What do you mean? '"For which the ability to go anywhere, never have problems to adapt to the local food." Promoted.

Eventually we made ​​it, it seemed we could not make this reunion because I was going to go to Shanghai and Denise had just been. But if it helps, and so here we are, in another continent, to order rice dishes and absurd in a downtown restaurant. By the way, thank you again for giving us the upper floors of the dinner and the taxi. E'innegabile that made ​​me curious to contextualize an evening with a deeply tied to the idea of Italy and Venice to Beijing, as it was a hoot to speak in Italian because it seems to read and write is not enough to keep a decent level of expression.

Thanks for the evening, who is next?