Water
Sean’s stepmom showed me how to boil water (I’m so embarrassed) and now I have an unlimited supply of hot water, optionally for tea.� This is wonderful.� I’ve even gotten some studying done. We’ve now secured an apartment–well, secured, at least in some sense. The rent is already high and we’ve sort-of been warned that [...]
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Posted October 9th, 2009 - 3:30 pm by maria
Categories china
Tags apartment, beijing, china, comfort, food, GMAT, holiday, running
Apartment Hunting in Beijing
So it’s been a while, and a lot has happened, and I don’t have the time right now to write about all of them so I think I’m going to settle for making some updates and filling in the rest later, albeit out of order. That should be acceptable. One of our primary concerns especially [...]
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Posted October 2nd, 2009 - 12:08 am by sean
Categories china,reference
Tags apartment, beijing, china, comfort, tips
Inaugural Post in China: Part 2
So I think I covered everything that happened during the trip to China and that very first day we were here. We slept decently well, were obviously exhausted, but it was painfully obvious why my father at one point or another made the comment that Chinese mattresses are bad. In the morning, Maria managed to [...]