delayed start

So a sudden, but fortunately short, powercut has delayed the start of today’s session of banging my head against the brickwall the Shanrong people have become. Actually, I did manage to find some stuff yesterday, including pictures of a couple of relics dug up from Shanrong sites in Yanqing, but I need to get stuck into translating these articles first. Oh joy.

As for the l family history thing, lzh told me a cool story. Apparently her great-grandfather left the ancestral corner of Shanxi with two buckets, one on each end of a carrying pole, and in each bucket a child. And that’s how the l family got to Yanqing.

Umm, just thinking about that first sentence: Is there ever a powercut that isn’t sudden?

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wangbo

A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.

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  2. Well, it was not expected, but hey, it’s my blog, I’m allowed to allow myself a little dramatic licence, even if it wasn’t even remotely dramatic.

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