My French colleague Romain Beaulande is an excellent baker. He even gives out lessons on how to make typical French cakes, like today in our lunch brake he gave a lesson with tips and tricks of making Tiramisu cake. Tomorrow we will have a taste after it have been cooled down in the fridge for a bit.

For me Beijing is getting better and better.. There are a lot of things that I missed from home, which I gave up the hope to find in China, but here I am. We just received a big box of Paprika chips at the office today. Paprika taste on Chips is not to find in the Chinese shops. However, Hattie my co-worker found this online on Taobao and made an order for people all over the office. So Happy!! We really love Taobao here in our office.

It´s Iduns birthday today.. Just want to wish you a happy day, and this is a picture of Idun playing Erhue.

Life in Beijing is to comfortable for a girl from the far North.. McDonald’s actually have their own delivery service (10 min). This is perfect for lazy  Sunday afternoons….

Nå har me endeligen vore på julabord i år og.. Me fekk jo åte litt forskjellikt god mat, men pinnakjøtte va favoritten altse.. Me åt så møkje att me måtte slappa av i sofaen itte på.. ha ha.. brokte fleire timar på å få maten te å synka.. ingen ting e som norske julamat altse..

Mathias stelte te øveraskelse party for kånå si i går. Idun blir 25 på mondag. Hu ante ingenting der hu kom inn døre å me sto me frøsestjerner å sang Hurra for deg som fyller ditt år for full hals.. Det blei ein knalla koslige liten fest i ståvå der me ei grui norske og noken te.. Idun e ei go jenta som eg blei kjent me i kina i 2005.. så studerte me i lag i kina våren 2006. Te stor glede har nå Idun og Mathias komt tebakers te Kina for å bli ei stond.

We have a chef at work every Tuesday and Thursday. And since it´s Thanksgiving in the US today, we  had Turkey dinner.. it was very good.. and the meal was finished with pumpkin pai..

i dag har barra kost meg.. starta me frokost på kafe.. skikklikt goe bagel med Idun og Hanne.. itte på så tok me oss ein tur på ein masasje plass.. eg e jo ikkje øvebegeistra for det da, men fant noke så paste for meg alikavel.. når me va på vei te å gå, så fant meg å Idun ut att me barra måtte prøva Cupping.. Det ska vara godt for mongen ting.. spesielt vist du har vondt i halsen og forkjølte, pluss diverse.. Eg øvedrive ikkje vist eg seie det va sinnsykt vondt.. te starka ferge du får onda kopper te sjukare e du. så han mannen meinte att eg hadde nok vondt i nakken.. der e fyr inni koppane..

Today is a special day for all the people in Beijing.. it is the official house warming day.. from the 15th of November to the 15th of March we should all have some heat in our houses. For us i think someone forgot to open the heater.. because it is not warm at all.. but officially, today is the day.. and we will get ours to work as well very soon i hope..

I dag trossa me kulden å tok bussen te Xidan, i håp om att Burger King endeligen va opna.. Å heldigvis så va and et altse.. så skoy.. det e det fuste her i byen utenom den så e på flyplassen da.

Eg fekk ei bok av na mamma te bursdagen så hu sa eg barra måtte lesa.. I dag va eg ferige. fytti for ei fine bok, der kom ein skvett tårer rett så det va.. ein ganske gripande historie med opphav frå Cuba frå midten av 1950 talet å fleire år framøve…Ska ikkje røpa innholde, men anbefales sterkt..

The eleventh day of the eleventh month. 11.11. Today is the single peoples day in China.. I am very amused by all the different special days a year in China. A friend of mine she received chocolate when she arrived to school in the morning, but I did not receive chocolate or anything like that, but I did receive some messages on the phone from other single people.. ha ha.. The evening turned out not to bad though. I had dinner with 3 men, even it was a business dinner it was pretty nice.

Snow is a one day in the year thing here in Beijing.  So I was very surprised when it was snowing again today, since we already had snow last week. I had to leave my house super early to get on the buss in the morning because I was afraid of the usual chaos on the road after a snowy night. Luckily I managed to arrive at my work in time..

Coming from Norway it is only natural to go out and play in the beautiful snow: