Nihao!  Hello. My name is Ling Ling. I'm from Shanghai China. I have been living in Osaka for three or four years.  My husband is a professor at Kinki university. His name is Sven. He and I have been married since 2001. I work part time as a Chinese language teacher, and also as an office worker, working with Chinese people in Japan.

  I like traveling, cooking, enjoying different kinds of food, and making friends.

  I am an only daughter to my parents because of the one-child policy in China. They live in Shanghai so sometimes I go to visit them, but one day  I would like to show them around Japan.

  My husband and I met in Shanghai, and we had a big Chinese wedding ceremony there. It was wonderful and 100 people came including friends, relatives and coworkers. Even some of my husband's friends came over from Osaka to join in the wedding!

 They were able to come very easily because there is a ferry that goes from Osaka or Kobe directly to Shanghai, or Tianjin. It is very cheap and fun to ride. It takes about 2 days to get there. The ship is so big that there is a Karaoke bar and a disco on board!

  If you ever have a chance I hope you will take the ferry to China and visit there. Traveling in a foreign country is one of the  funnest things to do in life, and you can use your English to make many friends in China. Especially in Shanghai, there are many young people who speak English very well!

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Thank you	Xie Xie
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