I’ve just come back from lunch. I’ve managed to eat Chinese food,
in China, with chopsticks and not totally embarass myself. Ate
some new food, new vegetables and a seemingly different type of
seaweed than I have eaten before. It tasted good though. I even
think Kit would have liked some of it (once she got over the fact
that it looked different and some things were green
things).
I arrived safely after a flight that was fine (except for getting
up rather early to get to Sydney to then take a sane timed
flight). Beijing seems to be a bit like the firefly world, except
with less flying cars. You’ve got heaps of stuff in English and
Chinese. It could be really interesting to live here and
experience things.
There’s a national English language newspaper which is fairly up to date on world events - the fact that our dear Mr Howard is going to go to the election seems to be news here! It’s not packed with local news, which would …
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