Actually, I should realize that promising to deliver anything on the weekend is a fairly unrealistic idea. Class all day on Saturday and Sunday makes it sort of tough to do anything besides go to class and sleep. Hell, it requires enough effort not to do both at the same time.
But the in and outs of actually teaching in China is the subject of another blog post, another blog day. Today, right now, Year of the Rats proudly presents.... pictures of our apartment.
Bum bum buuuuuuuum.
So come on in, take of your shoes. And of course... slip on some slippers.
Here you can see our rather large selection of slippers. It's really cool to see how smoothly our Chinese visitors get their sneakers off and get into a pair of these. No fumbling, no thought. Just what seems like one impossibly slick motion.
Oh, and the ones on the far right are mine. Don't even think about touching those.
So this right here is the first thing you'll see coming into the apartment. Our little computer setup, and a glimpse at the largely unused entertainment center. Anything else catching your eye?
This guy?
That there is our wireless hub, guarded by a deceptively mean rooster.
So lets take a stroll through the living room.
Check out the view from one of our two (unpictured) couches. Here you can see the tv, the unworking Wii, and our as yet undecorated shelves. Except for the one on the bottom right that has our small, yet growing, selection of bootleg DVDs. And the shelf above that... is that...
It is! A fish tank! Meet Ando, one of the two goldfish Corey and I picked up early last week. His friend Hiro is no longer with us unfortunately... but soon we will find a new friend for Ando.
A moment please.
Aaaaaaand we're off again.
Here is bedroom number one, with its large open windows, stylish cabinets, and bed with no mattress, I like to refer to this room as "my room."
The bed with no mattress is also ideal for hanging laundry. Huzzah.
To the right, we have bedroom number two.
Note the stylish pink curtains, and the large window that gives you great views of the DMZ such as the sea of garbage, and the maximum security school. (See previous post)
Now lets take a walk back through the living room.
And what is that I see beyond the plants (both fake, and real)?
Here we have our breakfast nook. We got a bit of a table, a microwave, and is that a water cooler?
Not quite. It's our handy dandy water purifier. Keeping the Chinese population healthy since 1973. (Or some year)
A quick 360 degree twirl will put you at these two mysterious doors. I wonder... what's behind door number one?
It's part one of our bathroom! Notice the cool flash effect off of our kickass glass counter.
And behind door number two?
You guessed it! Part two of the bathroom! And as a surprise bonus, you also get... the washing machine!
Fortunately or unfortunately (depending on how you want to look at it), we don't have a traditional Chinese wet bathroom. In one of these, you have your shower head and a toilet in the same room, but no partition. The entire room is meant to be one fun, wet, cleansing experience.
Ah well. Lets take a step out of the bathrooms.
Turning left at the breakfast nook, we get a look at the glass doors to our enclosed balcony/kitchen. Lets step inside!
A sink! And a chopstick!
And if you turn around again, you'll see our last picture of this three part photo-extravaganza. No flash this time, as I wanted everyone to take a nice look out into the DMZ.
Didn't work quite as well as I had hoped, so maybe sometime soon we'll get the photographer to post some pictures. And hopefully of things more interesting than our barely working stove.
Peace and love from China,
- Shawn
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