Last Saturday we went to the Great Wall of china which was a lot of fun. We took lots of photos and I’ve uploaded then to the gallery which you can find ???here???. After going to the Great Wall we basically relaxed for the rest of the week. Sheree had her first full day of classes on Wednesday, so we were deliberately taking it easy beforhand and then afterwards she was fairly busy getting the classroom up and running. I applied for an job teaching English. I don’t find out if I got the job for another couple of days but even if I do it doesn’t start till the 10th. I’m also starting to get into a rythm at home which is good.Mao our cat is starting to get really fluffy. When we bought him he was shaved but since we haven’t shaved him he has furs has grown so his face looks really chubby. His hair still has another cm or two to grow which will make him even cuter. My mandarin study is starting to show progress which has encouraged me to put more in even more effort. It will be interesting to see how much mandarin I can speak by the end of next month. I’m finally starting to feel like I’m settling in. The streets are starting to look more famillar and I’m getting use to walking around surrounded by chinese people :-).
One of the best things about the modern world is the fact that it’s really easy to get in contact with people at home. I’ve had a couple of video link ups with friends and family at home so in a way it feels like I’m just down the street. When I lived in Australia no one bothered with web cams but now that I’m overseas almost everyone has one.
Today we saw something that was so typical for China. They’ve been shutting down pirate DVD stores in Beijing. I think it’s either for the World Trade Organisation talks that are going on or for the Olympics. Anyway one of the better shops got shut down this week. We to check it out after church and he’s planning on opening a Silk Store in the same location with an enterance in the back for the DVD store which is currently downstairs in the basement and about twice as big as it was before. The reason why it’s so typical for China is that the government can say that they’ve cracked down on piracy which is true but nothing really changed it just went underground. There is no real insentive for things to change over here. In China there is a big gap between the laws and reality. I suppose it was the same back in Australia but I never noticed it in Australia.
I hope to have two products ready to launch by the end of this week or at least a beta test out. Hopefully that means that by the end of September my internet business will have made it’s first sale.Hope your all well.
Nathaniel & Sheree Brown.
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