The blog will lack visuals for a while because I stupidly left my camera on a taxi and need to get a new one.
Basic life interactions can all be fraught with misunderstanding if you don’t have much language in common – getting your hair cut, getting curtains and hooks for your windows, getting someone to come and fix the ADSL, explaining to the security guard that you live in your building (though you, um, don’t know your address). Things get done, kind of, but it gets tiring.
The stores are really busy, with signs like 只有三天 (zhĭyoŭ sān tiān; only three days left) and bouncy music is playing with 50% of the lyrics being 恭喜 恭喜 恭喜(gōngxĭ gōngxĭ gōngxĭ; congratulations, congratulations). 春节(chūnjié; Chinese new year) is upon us, which will basically be a long weekend. Local people tell me about their plans to visit temples and do things for good luck in the new year. I am surprised by the amount of superstition since my former impression of China was highly secular.
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