I thought it was about time to let you all know about how I am actually living, rather than specific outings and days. There are now eight of us living in one apartment (four bed rooms, three bathrooms, which is great! Especially now the girls have one bathroom between us, so we don’t have to put up with the smelly boy bathroom) in a block in the northwest corner of Xi’an, about a kilometre from the Bell Tower, indicating the city centre. There is another apartment on the floor below that has the big dining table, the office, and various computers and laptops all plugged into the wall. It’s pretty dodgy walking around the table, as there are wires and things everywhere, a veritable deathtrap if you aren’t paying attention. We have a cook, two women
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