I’m here! I met my headmaster and contact teacher at a contract signing ceremony in the hotel this morning and then moved straight to my school. There’s a Walmart right across the street, and I don’t even feel bad shopping at it. The area is really nice: there’s a park, plenty of restaurants and convenience stores, a China Construction Bank (Bank of America, I love you), and it’s mostly quiet and green. Shenzhen’s most expensive apartment building is a block away—30,000 to 40,000 yuan per square meter! My apartment is awesome—although it was pretty dirty and still needs some work, it’s pretty big with nice furniture, a huge tv and dvd player, a separate kitchen and bathroom, a king size bed, a desk, two bedside tables, two easy chairs, a couch, and a coffee table! My
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