Our neighborhood/Women de xiaoqu/Kampung kita

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Just a few snapshots from our neighborhood and daily routine. We live in the Hexi district of Tianjin which is just a regular residential neighborhood.

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Photos

It's not easy being green
This is the canal that runs along the main street in our neighborhood. It is very green. There is a park that runs alongside it where people hang out with their dogs and sing and do tai chi.

Exercise for everyone
We saw some kids using this playground equipment the other day, but it seems to be mainly for old people to use when they do their "exercises"

Fit for life
I'm working out about as hard as the local retirees in this picture

Canal-side park
Sort of a scholar stone, made from some concrete composite

Pomegranate (?) tree
Ron, can you name that fruit?

Take-away window
We can buy a lot of our food from these windows. Bo was trying to get the abacus that they use to calculate the price in the photo.

Me buying a half roast chicken
yummy

Non-cooked chickens
These chickens are unrelated to the previous 2 photos of chickens. They live in our neighborhood, usually hanging out on the sidewalk in front of the pharmacy

Hai Jian Li
Heading into our complex

Our Building
We live on the 6th floor :)
No elevator :(

Our doorway
in Boston we live in unlucky #44, but in Tianjin we live in lucky #88

Bike parking
no doorman here

Our apartment
someone kindly wrote our apartment number on an index card and stuck it to the door with tape.

various utilities in the hall
in case anything goes wrong we have a lot of phone numbers to call

No doorknob necessary
either you have the key or you don't have the key

Comments

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Tianjin
44 is not unlucky !!! 4+4=8, very lucky number !!! 88 = 8+8 = 16=1+7=8 terrific !!! Lucky you know and understand a bit of Chinese huh Karin. Bo love to read it loud of course !