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China

Turner HQ

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We are beginning to settle in.  Our shipment finally arrived.  Well to be exact we finally received our shipment after it was stuck in customs for about 3 weeks.  The boxes looked a bit battered, and only two small candle holders were damaged.  We now have far too many clothes for our one chest of drawers and wardrobe, so I think another Ikea organization adventure is sure to come in the next few weeks.  We’ve missed out our room and office in these pics, more to come later.  Every week we add a bit more and it is really starting to feel like home.

Our ‘balcony’
Living room looking toward balcony
Living and dining room
Lovely Ikea shoe holder
Guest shower
Guest toilet
Playroom, projector, boxee and surround sound
Projector in playroom
Memories
Kitchen 1
Kitchen 2
Dining/Living room
Dining room looking out to laundry room

-Mrs. T

China

Water World (minus Kevin Costner)

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A little interesting routine here is our weekly water delivery. We buy 10 water tokens for 130 RMB (£13.71, $21.25) from school. Each week we reply to an email how many bottles we want. Saturday we leave an empty bottle and 1 token (£1.37, $2.12) outside our door and our new water is delivered. So convenient!

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-Mrs. T

China

A day of discovery

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Dad, this one is for you. Never thought I’d find these shoes here
Lovely church and fountain we stumbled upon
Nanjing Lu
Our first Asian teas from It’s Time To
A bit surprised to see this here!
A bit of Chinglish: Margaret pizza
Mr T walking through the Metro station
Tianjin Metro
Tianjin Metro
Tianjin Metro

We set out this morning with the intention of finding a little French bakery around the corner, 6 hours later we arrived home exhausted but with a growing appreciation of our new city!

Tous les Jours turned out to be less than a kilometre away and was a lovely treat of carbs, which have nearly disappeared from our diet since we arrived. Whist I had originally had the intentions of going in to school to get ready for the start of term, adventure beckoned so my classroom could wait until tomorrow.

We decided to jump on the Metro and see what happened. Going on our memory from our city tour we went two stops to find not too much of interested. A little help from Google maps and we realized we needed to go a bit further. Two more stops and a total of 80 pence/$1.30 spent we found ourselves in the pedestrian shopping street. Shop upon shop, and mall after mall there was pretty much anything you could want. I managed to get a few staples at Uniqlo, though a bit off putting that I was buying size XL.

In addition to shopping we got some lessons in toilet habits of Chinese children. We witnessed one baby being held over a plastic bag having a poo, and later a young girl being held up to wee in the bin. All of this in public in the middle of the street!

Any number of food was there as well from McDonalds, KFC, juice and tea shops, Starbucks, Costa Coffee, the list could go on and on. We were able to get a few groceries at Japanese grocer Isetan. A nice combination of home comforts, like Organic Valley milk and a selection of cheeses, and local produce and goods.

Back on the Metro which I have to say was easy to use and ever so clean and we were home within 10 minutes. It was a great day of exploring! We are feeling more and more comfortable and happy in this new city.

Mrs. T