After a week with no internet access, I am fully moved into my new apartment in Beijing's Haidian district. I will post some pictures soon. If you have been checking this blog, expect more frequent updates now that I can do it from my apartment.
Intersting Story:
This morning at 4 am I woke up to discover that my electricity was not working. Everything in China is done on a prepaid card, so I knew there was nothing I could do until daylight. I had to go to the apartment management office (where they don't speak any English, strange since my apartment is owned by an Austrailian company!) and put money on my card. The prepaid amount that was already on there had run out at 4 am! After that, I had to insert the card into my electric meter and like magic, the electricity was back on. I guess it makes sense in a city of 15 million to save on postage and not send out electric bills. Apparently, this system is quite common in the rest of the world. My British coworkers could not believe that a country still exists where electric bills are sent through the mail.
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