Connecting China – Bonbon’s blueberry cheese cake


Ask the people at Connecting China what keeps them going, and you are sure to get different answers. Eating and food, is on top for Bonbon, especially dessert and in particular the latest blueberry cheese cake she had.
For many Chinese women that an unlikely combination, eating and sporting, she agrees, eating a lot and sporting. “It stops me from getting fat, so I can keep on eating,” she says. “For most gals the best sport is shopping.” Shopping is actually the last thing Bonbon wants to think about, the favorite sport of window shopping sound like torture. Bonbon: “When I need something, I rush in, pay and rush out again. And I’m always wearing the latest fashion: jeans and t-shirts. I’m never out of touch with the fashion.”
After finishing her study, she will become a travel guide, but although she is a frequent traveler, she will stay at home during the upcoming national holiday in October. Also, she needs to earn money in a café or a bread store, to pay for her next planned trip to Europe. She has never though of going to a factory to earn money. “In a factory you need at least some skills, and I do not have any,” she thinks. Since tipping is mostly not done in China, does she think the can get enough together for such an expensive trip? Bonbon: “Maybe my dad will then pay for it, I also have the job to get more experience, not really for the money.”
Bonbon is now preparing to go back to university in Guangzhou and resume her study. That will not keep her from going online: "I can take my laptop wherever I go," she says.