We Moved and Other Things

So, somehow it’s been a month and a bit. Jill started teaching. We moved into a real apartment. We bought furnishings, well, we are not finished buying furnishings. The weather hasn’t been as rainy or typhoony lately but there is a typhoon scheduled to affect us on Saturday. I’ve settled in here, I study Chinese and Cantonese everyday or so. I make Jill supper when she doesn’t want to cook. Fortunately, we discovered chicken hot dogs. Things are moving along.

We went to the fire dragon parade too late to be a spectator.We found ourselves in a sea of sweaty bodies with no way forward so we went back. It’s easy to forget that we live with 8 million other people and countless tourists. Discouraged we left and went to another smaller dragon parade that was delightful. It was a mid-autumn festival event. I’m not sure how it became mid-autumn because it is still hot as heck.

We went to the Chinese National Day fireworks show but we showed up too late. We listened the booms and saw the smoke drift until we found a spot to see a sliver around a child, a tree, and a building. We still forget we live with those 8 million people and countless tourists.

We’ve been hiking in the jungle a couple of times and it’s super fun. We went for a long strenuous hike with our friends who we met in Shenzhen. That was beautiful and fun. Last weekend we went for a more leisurely hike with Jill’s coworker who also lives down the street from us. I’m sure we will find ourselves hiking in the coming weeks as well.

This weekend will be Typhoon Koinu, Jill is also going to a vegan cheesemaking class. Hopefully the 8 million other folks and the storm won’t show up there. I am planning to look at second-hand dining chairs and a footstool.