1993 - From Sakhalin to China

After living in London Ms. Thatcher fall in 1990 and in Moscow the putsch in august 1991, Mr. Gorbachow hijacking and finally the Soviet Union collapse I came back to work in the Japanese Pavilion at the Seville Expo 92 where I could make some money to continue my trip to Egypt, this time with my wife, from Sakhalin island, I actually married her in the Spanish Embassy in Cairo.

We married again in Spain in order to let my family to know her. Then we moved again to Russia, to Sakhalin, for her family to acknowledge me as her husband. Then we decided to move to China. I had started to learn Russian, Arabic and Chinese in Berlin when studying International Relations and Peace Research there and I would accomplish my plan this way before becoming a family man and search for a job.

My father in law arranged with a local cargo airline our trip to China. It was a big plane, I think an Antonov, it was full of Japanese cars we brought from Sakhalin to Irkutsk. From Irkutsk it had to leave for Shanghai to pick up a fur coats cargo. We arrived to Irkutsk at 3 am and were received by people with Kalashnikovs taking care for the cars downloading, once it was done we went then to the airport crew hotel to wait for our departure to China.

China from Berlin

I started to study Chinese at the Technishe Universität Berlin, TUB, in 1988. I had a Chinese girlfriend there. I met her right after she arrived from Guangdong during Chinese New Year 1989. I invited her to dance in a Chinese New Year event organized by Chinese students in Berlin. She was very pretty and the Chinese students would kick me when dancing with her.

We started to meet; everybody would say we were a nice couple. I had a funny relationship with her because I was a fully spiritual person then but one night she came for a rock concert close to my place, the rock concert was something really shocking for her and too exciting for both of us, she wanted to leave, it was heavily snowing that night and I invited her to stay in my place…

It is too difficult to tell what happened after, sorry about it – I cannot publish it in this blog, though it would really give you an insight about China….

We experienced together all the activities in Berlin against the Chinese government for the Tiananmen events…

At the end of 1989 I moved to London. She wanted to come over in 1990 but she did not manage. I met her last time in Berlin on feb. 1991 on my way to Moscow. She invited me to a Chinese party there and return me back some money I had paid for her in London.