One good thing about living in China is that everything here seems to be cheaper. Not only clothing and shoes but also electronic things like MP3/4 players, DVD players, computers, cellphones, computer accessories, etc. Of course most of the brand names are unknown to many non-Chinese but that doesn’t mean that these products cannot function well as the others. Right now, I am using a Hasee Laptop and I am quite contented with it. For 4800RMB (460 EU), I got a brand new laptop with 120G capacity, 2GB of RAM, and all the other basic features that well-known brands offer. Not bad.

But there are just some things you can’t buy here like an electronic English-German dictionary. There are hundreds of cheaply priced e-dictionaries in electronic stores but these only offer Chinese-Foreign languages. No foreign language-foreign language so I have to buy mine in Europe. Normally, you can buy a good e-dictionary here for 500RMB (48 EU) so I was a little bit annoyed when I bought my e-dictionary for 150EU. Nevertheless, I am still glad I bought it because I can’t imagine going through one German class without it.