I now have internet in the apartment! However, I'm too lazy to take pictures of it all right now, so the introduction will have to wait until the next post.
With my recent purchases of a plunger, a blanket for my bed (which was supplied with a bottom sheet but no pillow or top sheet), peanut butter, and a Chinese cook book, I now feel pretty successfully moved in. Additionally, last night I broke in my kitchen by starting my first batch of sauerkraut (in a jar purchased from IKEA -- the only place in Guangzhou where I could find measuring spoons) and ginger ale, so this apartment is starting to feel a little more homey.
Tomorrow is the first day of another holiday in China, National Week, in remembrance of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and lasts for one week, though two of those days need to be made up on neighboring weekends. This was an awful lot of holidays in a row right at the beginning of the semester, but after this I believe there are no more holidays until the Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, at the end of January. So I will have an uninterrupted period of work for several months.
For this holiday, I will spend the first couple days exploring Guangzhou with some friends from Oberlin who are teaching English in Shanxi province this year, and then I'm off to Shanghai to meet up with Ben, the Luce Scholar placed there, and one of our friends from Beijing. And then the first day of work after the vacation will be the welcome feast for the beginning of the year, where all the students and professors get together and have a large banquet. It serves a double function this year, because it will also be a welcome feast for one of Prof. Wang's coworkers from Germany and one of his students, who will be spending the next several months working at South China Normal University. This will, for a time, remove my status as the only foreigner at the School of Psychology. I think I'll be able to cope.
With my recent purchases of a plunger, a blanket for my bed (which was supplied with a bottom sheet but no pillow or top sheet), peanut butter, and a Chinese cook book, I now feel pretty successfully moved in. Additionally, last night I broke in my kitchen by starting my first batch of sauerkraut (in a jar purchased from IKEA -- the only place in Guangzhou where I could find measuring spoons) and ginger ale, so this apartment is starting to feel a little more homey.
Tomorrow is the first day of another holiday in China, National Week, in remembrance of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and lasts for one week, though two of those days need to be made up on neighboring weekends. This was an awful lot of holidays in a row right at the beginning of the semester, but after this I believe there are no more holidays until the Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, at the end of January. So I will have an uninterrupted period of work for several months.
For this holiday, I will spend the first couple days exploring Guangzhou with some friends from Oberlin who are teaching English in Shanxi province this year, and then I'm off to Shanghai to meet up with Ben, the Luce Scholar placed there, and one of our friends from Beijing. And then the first day of work after the vacation will be the welcome feast for the beginning of the year, where all the students and professors get together and have a large banquet. It serves a double function this year, because it will also be a welcome feast for one of Prof. Wang's coworkers from Germany and one of his students, who will be spending the next several months working at South China Normal University. This will, for a time, remove my status as the only foreigner at the School of Psychology. I think I'll be able to cope.
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