The tennants have left, the global financial situation has gone to pot, and the money spent in the wild decadent days in the early part of the trip cannot be made up now however cheap the aubergines in Yangshuo. Nevertheless, I am normally poor, and so it is almost like being back home living on the smell of an oily rag.I may have to get a job here, and I rather like the prospect. There is an advertisement for English teachers in a window. Free accommodation and food, free visa 4000-6000 RMB a month. Very lovely scenery and lots of time to sketch. It can work, it can work . . . I am into my overdraft, and my longsuffering parents are about to go on holiday. Heaven help me. At least you can get a
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