The sky is never blue here,
it can be the rain
or the smog,
but you can’t have a clear sky.

Same thing when the sun goes down
millions of lights brighten the dark night
and you can’t see the stars.

Someone opens a egg on a bike handlebar
someone else spits across the street
and a father keeps an eye on his daughter
who’s peeing on the border of the street.

I still need time to assimilate everything
I’m in a megacity with the same extension of Liguria
and half the population of my country, Italy!

The university campus is huuuuge
I bought a bike on Taobao
it’s full of cats, meowww
and thank God of trees, too.

博学而笃志，切问而近思 is my motto now
which means “to learn extensively and adhere to aspirations,
to inquire earnestly and reflect with self-application”.