Sunday on my mind

Weather: overcast with drizzle

Caption: Room with a view. Henri and Frikkie's view at night.

Sundays are obviously dog-walking day in Beijing. There are fluffy little hairballs with doting owners everywhere. It's quite sweet. The dogs are all relative small because there's a city bylaw that restricts the height of dogs allowed in the city. The biggest dog I've seen so far was a Husky, which isn't all that big.

Today was another Henri sloth day. But in my defence ~ it's Sunday, even though Frikkie was working all day.

We ended up at a great fresh produce market after I picked Frikkie up from his office. It's amazing how quickly we go used to seeing live fish, prawns and grabs at markets and supermarkets. SUPER fresh seafood is definitely the norm here. I haven't quite gotten myself to choosing a fish who's head will be chopped off especially for me, nor do I think I'll ever get there, but you never know. My little heart bleeds for the crabs who's legs are secured with elastic bands. But I guess if you don't want to kill it you shouldn't eat it... Not quite there yet either.

Today I miss my friends. It's one thing seeing people once a month, but at least you know there's somebody you can call up to go for a drink or dinner. So I feel a bit like Henri-No-Friends, which I guess is part and parcel of moving countries and continents. But it does mean that I get to spend loads of time with my lovely Frikkie, which is great. But I miss my friends. I met one of our neighbours today. Or should I rather say I met one of our English-speaking neighbours today. I've forgotten his name, but he's American, teaches movie post-production special effects and has lived here for a year - it's a amazing what you can find about a person going down 25 floors in the lift.

We're busy making dinner: Gnocchi with walnut and blue cheese sauce. Can you tell that we're eating a lot?

Tomorrow I go for my interview for a job to teach corporate English. Hold thumbs.

And my final thought for today: I hate Microsoft. I downloaded updates and plug-ins for IE and all of a sudden I couldn't log into my blog to post and loads of things were in Mandarin. I thought the great firewall of China had gotten to me, but then I tried it on the Mac and it was all fine. So stuff IE. I downloaded Firefox and off I went.