Friday, April 9, 2010

There are a few things about my apartment that I am still not used to. For example:
My stove top has a lid. You lift it before you cook. ???Why??? The burners and oven are gas which I am used to but they light differently. It's more of a manual operation and I still fear I am going to blow something up. Glad I am used to gas. Can't imagine coming from electric to this gas! And is it possible for gas to burn hotter in China? I feel like I am cooking with a smaller flame and still burning things. I'm hoping it's the cheapy cookware we bought to get by but I feel like it's hotter.

I've mentioned there are no outlets in the bathrooms. Did I mention the light switch to the bathroom is in the hallway? There is a special outlet for a men's shaver in the bathroom though. Just like in an old school airplane lav. The exhaust fan is installed in the window and you turn it on by a pull chain. So the cover blows open and the fan blows out. Can you say easy bug entry? I don't get it. My bathtub is high. G can barely climb in and out and D cannot do it at all. This makes him angry since he was able to do this before.

We also do not have central a/c. We have a window unit in each bedroom and a big wall unit like you see sometimes in a hotel in the living room. Plus a dehumidifier. Lots of white noise going on. We have a little balcony with French doors and all the windows have panels that can open. But no screens. And the bugs are big. I've only had one little bee type bug fly in through an open window. But I tell you what, I would lose my mind if one of the mothy/butterfly/bat bugs flew in here. Lose. My. Mind.

We walked to the "nice park" today. Gave me a great workout since it's literally up hill both ways.

There was a naughty little boy at the park. He wasn't messing with my kids or anything. I don't even know what he was doing wrong and really I never did figure out which kid he was. The lady that was with him (caregiver, mom?) kept shouting what sounded like "Osheet" over and over with URGENCY. Every time she'd yell "Osheet" I would instinctively jolt and look up because I thought she was yelling "oh shit" as in "oh shit somebody's hurt!" I never did get used to it. And I feel sorry for that kid if he has aspirations to ever move to the USA or UK. Not cool if your name sounds like "oh shit" in English.

Somehow we lost one of D's shoes on the walk over. Bummer! I know this happens to moms everywhere but it was a first for me. We retraced our steps exactly and didn't find it on the way home. He's been having such a growth spurt they were destined to be outgrown soon anyway. And they were full on leather wintery shoes so not ideal for HK anyway. I am choosing not to worry about it. Our shipment gets delivered in the morning and he's got new shoes in there. Between now and then he has purple fuzzy slippers and dinosaur rain boots. He's all set.

Hurray for our stuff getting delivered tomorrow! It's gonna be like Christmas! I hope the kids stay clear of the workers.

And B gets home about lunch time tomorrow. So it's almost safe to say I've survived without him for the week. Let's hope I make it through tomorrow morning with the movers coming.

1 comment:

  1. You make me giggle :)
    I'm glad you got your stuff!!! Yay!

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