Monday 30 September 2019
Sunday 29 September 2019
Thursday 26 September 2019
Tuesday 24 September 2019
Tuesday 24th September 2019
I had a great Chinese lesson today online and today for the first time I really feel that I am making progress, at least with the speaking. Ah well, only listening reading and writing to feel good about. No problem there then, haha. There are several traditional Chinese board games to be seen in the park and this is one of them
Monday 23rd September 2019
Every Monday morning there is a ceremony outside the school and the flag is raised and the anthem is played and the pledge is recited
Friday 20 September 2019
Thursday 19th September 2019
Thursday morning we had breakfast in the cafe across the road and then I walked with YingYing through the park and along to the bus stop on the main road, to see her off to work,
Thursday afternoon I waited for her at the far end of the park at the intersection.
Tuesday 17 September 2019
Monday, 16th September 2019
This is the view from our bedroom window, over into the school below. Every Monday morning, a parade, the raising of the flag, the national anthem, children singing along to a patriotic-sounding song, then some mad disco music and jigging about a bit before the start of lessons
Sunday, 15th September 2019
The social club somewhere between our apartment and the park............................................................
Saturday 14 September 2019
Saturday, 14th September, 2019
My ex-pat friend Steve has helped me with this. They are persimmons and they ripen very quickly so I have already changed my mind about them. They are delicious, when very soft, like a sweet over-ripe plum, same colour inside and out as far as I can tell (being a tinsie-winsie bir colour-blind)
Tuesday 10 September 2019
Sunday 8 September 2019
Saturday 7th September 2019
Saturday and it rained all day so I didn't get out at all. The weather is on the turn I guess. We still have the fan on all day to get a bit of breeze going through the apartment. YingYing wants to upgrade to get an apartment that has windows on more than one side. I get it. There is a special tax that applies to resale of this type of an apartment. I think it has something to do with concierge and cleaning services - this makes it more difficult to sell on apparently. Also, second hand apartments are more difficult to sell. There is a surplus of new building and the standard of building is generally poor and so apartments age quickly
Thursday 5 September 2019
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