Written a week ago, I couldn’t simply delete this. Nothing really new to everyone, but it does give me an excuse to post some pictures of the NW.
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We traveled to Seattle and the Portland area for our last couple days in the U.S. Visiting with friends was good and being able to hangout in the NW was awesome. 
We left from Portland after having spent a couple days at A’s parents house (A was there too). The team formerly known as Club Med spent time motorcycling around the family farm, picking blackberries, eating, and running a few errands.
We were in Beijing for 4 days meeting up with other teachers, training, and new team stuff. Kim and I also managed to squeeze in a visit to the second largest Ikea in the world to buy some chairs. 
Priced nicely we bought two and had them immediately shipped to Yinchuan. For a cultural outing we went to an artsy area of Beijing. Some have described the area as something similar to New York’s SoHo. Being the highly selective artsy guy I am, I thought the best thing was the Mao Zedong rice sculpture.
We arrived to Yinchuan on Tuesday.
Most of our time so far has been setting up our apartment. The school painted the apartments over the summer and, after they sanded off the rough look of the paint, left a fine layer of dust to clean up. I don’t know how many times I’ve swept and mopped, but I continue to plague the floor with imprints of my sandals in the dust. I think I’m making some progress though.
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Hmm, rice sculpture, interesting. How's the new digs compare with the old?
ReplyDeleteenjoyed,laughed out loud, caught up with the your news. felt like a visit. so miss you two! it's good here..we grow
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new place looks pretty big! hope your doing well!
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