Ni hao! It’s Sunday afternoon, but here in China, everyday seems to be Sunday. And Monday. Nothing changes much between the two. For instance, this morning the hammering and sawing began next door at just after 7 am, like it has every day for a week. The apartments on both sides of ours are being renovated. The walls are made of brick, covered in plaster so it gets noisy, for a long time, when someone decides to remove a wall. The dust goes everywhere and the bricks all get stacked outside the door, for reuse. For all I know, all these bricks have been used a dozen times. Buildings don’t appear to last long around here. As Sean and I have begun looking for apartments, people warned us away from old places, those built before say,
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