We don’t really check our mail too often in the apartment. Walking down to the pool area every day where the mailboxes are is evidently too much to remember for all four of us, but we at least get to it every month or so. Then, our meager correspondences shower down upon the [...]
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One good thing about having a birthday far, far away from home is that if it’s just far away enough, your one day of celebration will turn into two, one for each hemisphere! I think I ate a bad dumpling yesterday. This is going to be a problem, because as you may know, once you upchuck a kind of food once, you never want to eat it again. This is why french toast and italian sodas are off limits for me. Then, though, I had [...] I was cooking/destroying some dumplings at my makeshift window kitchenette and watching the kids down in the courtyard play basketball. I always have to keep the window open while I cook/destroy things, which is a lesson I learned after the smoke detector went off the first time. Since it was open I could [...] Hoo, it suddenly became chillier than I expected Shenzhen could get. Currently it’s a nice 55 degrees Fahrenheit, which of course is balmy for back home in Washington, but then I’m becoming less used to those temperatures ever since I left home for Los Angeles. It’s the curse of the well-traveled: people from [...] I was eating dinner at a fancy Thai restaurant at Coastal City with Kami and Nicole when Tiantian called. “Andrew where are you!” Uh oh. Did I forget another teacher’s banquet? “No, it is okay. There is a box of fruit for Mid-Autumn Festival here for you! It will be on first floor.” Oh, thanks Tiantian! Hours [...] Besides musing on the distasteful news of my brother’s university enjoying a fluke football win against my alma mater that happened while I was unconscious (which, I contend, should somehow diminish its significance), I hadn’t planned on doing much today. Yesterday had already been eventful enough: with Carolyn I went to the gargantuan Book [...] I know that this is something I could be yelled at for, but I’m still having some difficulty finding food on weekends. The school cafeteria closes and I haven’t yet found enough kitchen utensils to be able to cook for myself (I need a bucket to put dirty dishes in…and then I suppose I [...] The shop clerks at Walmart are starting to catch on to me. The guy who’s been trying to sell me an iron for the past week was among the six or seven people who mobbed me in the kitchenware section, and the mattress and bedding fuwuyuan totally called me out on having been there [...] Bear with the ugly thing up top; I’m still trying to tweak it in Wordpress. Don’t have much time now though – must meet the others at Shijie Zhichuang for our lunch at Ikea. What’s an Ikea doing in Shenzhen? What’s an Ikea not doing in Shenzhen, is the question. The [...] |
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