So I have been waiting long for my gift, but today it finally arrived!! I had to go to the custom office to get it but after 34 days of shipping the long journey from China to Germany is over. I had to open it in the customs office, because the officer wanted to know if it had any value to declare in it. Thus there won't be any unpacking photos. Nevertheless we (the customs officer and I) had lots of fun unpacking the present. Appearantely there is a 45 EUR limit for packages which go customs free. Neither me or the custom officer could tell the initial value, so he just let it slip and I didn't have to pay anything. Now to the contents. As I opened it the first thing jumping into my eye was a lenovo-backpack. It looks pretty awesome, because of the colour-choice my Secret Santa made - blue zippers on black fabric - nice looks for my back! Also I now eventually have a backpack for my laptop, which makes things easier, thanks for that SS ;-) As this covered the rest of the pack, I was very curious what was awaiting me beneath. There was a chinese New Years card, which has just the perfect amount of knickknack on it - awesome reference to my username maybe? Beside there was a fawn role I couldn't associate to anything I've seen so far in my life. As I opened it in the office to the joy of the customs officer there were meeples falling all over the floor. It took me as long as to get home to realise it was the chess set my SS talked about in the letter. The figures are nicely crafted, but I couldn't figure out so far which figures they represent in a chess game. But I'll get into that! Last not least the bottom of the package was filled with lots of cubes. After a second look those exposed themself as Majiong stones (not sure if proper term for the cubes). IT'S A HUGE MAJIONG GAME - IN REAL LIFE! I will come to play it as soon as my finals are over! Until then all of it will highlighten the ambience of my little dorm room! Thanks for all that my canadian, chinese Secret Santa! A belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Freiburg, Germany, nicknac89