EPTBye-Bye China
I am back from China. Well, almost! At the moment I am sitting in Amsterdam at the airport and waiting for my plane that will leave in about two hours to Stuttgart, Germany. Again I have to spend some more time in the plane. The flight from Beijing to Amsterdam was about nine hours and though I slept for a while, I still feel tired as hell. This is the jet lag.
I remember the times when I have been a little kid and dreamt of every day flights. But I took a while and the only thing that kept my dreams alive where some postcards my Dad collect for me in the aircrafts and brought them home to me. Even today I still have them and watch them from time to time. But I am no longer the guy that dreams to fly. I mean sure, it is great to sit in a plane that is flying somewhere in the nowhere in the sky. You are above the clouds… the horizon seems to be endless, and the end of the world seems to be painted in the strongest and depths blue that is ever possible. Ok that is the good part, but the less attracting issue is that going by plane takes time. You think you are very fast? You fly fast but it stills needs so much time to get to the airport, pass the security control, exchange money, wait for your plane and things like this. A lot of time where you just sitting or standing around and doing nothing.
And if you followed my live a little bit, during the last three weeks I have been on three different continents: All the way from America to Germany and to China. This is crazy, isn’t it? But I think this also shows how eSports is growing and what is possible here. Actually it also shows how big MYM and Regroup ESport are – and this is just the beginning. I don’t want to sound like an idiot, but I don’t know other Esports organization that sent a guy around the world within a few months like it happened to me this year. It shows that MYM can be an example for what is possible in eSports also for the next months and years. Editors become Journalists that travel the world and report with videos and interviews and pictures from any event. I mean look at TV stations like BBC or CCN etc, they have their reporters that travel the world to bring the back content home to their country. And yes, eSports is on a good way… I am sure in maybe one year we will see a lot of changes here and a lot of great journalists traveling the world.
You may ask know why I told you before about this thing that flying ain’t no longer that extraordinary for me. Well, sure it is great to fly and have all the service and the things I described above. But it is also arduous. The time differences are hard. And it takes at least one or two days to get over the jet lag. Days you lose… days where you do nothing… days where you feel like a ghost. Days, lost in translation.
And I also felt the feeling of lost sometimes in China. The one thing is the things I wrote in my previous blog about the players and eSports. But on the other hand Beijing is unbelievable huge. Not only huge, also loud. The people talking louder then hear I think and even in restaurants the noise level is high. It is hard to relax in the public. There are no green parks where you can sit down and have a rest and forget the day for some minutes. There are people everywhere and the people are always and ever in a hurry. Running around, talking… they even cannot enjoy their food relaxed. And the traffic… wow! I thought the traffic in Los Angeles was crazy, but Beijing is unbelievable. So many cars, and no one seems to respect the traffic rules. I mean in Germany no one would cross the street if the lights are red. But Beijing seems to have its own rules. When I was sitting in the taxi, it was not only one time when I had the feeling I would die now cause an accident will happen. But it works… there are no crashes.
Traveling by taxi is fine. It is so cheap. You can drive about 30mins and you pay just 4 Euros or so. You can enjoy the view out of the window and you see advertisements everywhere: blue, red, green – light everywhere. And skyscrapers – everywhere! It seems like whole Beijing is build only of very high houses. It is crazy! But in fact many people are quite poor. And they think Europeans are rich. Maybe they are right, cause things where so cheap for me there: food, taxi, drinks, everything! And some of the Chinese ppl never saw European guys before. They ask for pictures and photos, this happened especially when we visited the forbidden city.
And well, when you are sitting in the taxi, breathing in that very very bad air and you ask yourself: If you would ask a Chinese guy which color has the sky, the citizens might answer it is gray! …smog! Well… you feel lost in someway.
And then there was this one night… we went to a club with all the MYM players, had free drinks and stuff like that! When Moon arrived there some fans gave him fanarts, one girl gave him a big teddy... after that she cried... wow! It was great. Actually I played a showmatch too since some of our SC players came too late. But hey, I am a noob! Anyways, after that people wanted autographs and photos with me. Crazy! And there was one girl, who asked me to take a picture of herself and me. Later I invited her for a drink… That was the beginning of a great night and a great day on the next day… and I saw tears when I had to leave home… breaking hearts is so bad… I feel bad… lost in translation!
Take care.
Give me two days to get fine again and to get over this.
Cya soon and I am looking forward to meeting some of you guys at the WC3L Finals next month.
But hey, I am happy!
Ppl on the pic:
Advokate, Crow, Blackman, Moon, a girl, White-Ra, the owner of the pub, a guy, Michelle, Maik, Ryan
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