Well, we've finally made it to Guangzhou and found an internet cafe here...
Hope you've enjoyed our updates so far, especially S' experiences and perspectives thereunto in India.
We were hoping to spend this week unpacking and cleaning up our flat, but that is all on hold right now. It's been absolutely frigid this week, from the time we arrived into Guangzhou until now. Unpacking was been pretty awful, since every few minutes i'd have to go stand by the glorified blowdryer we were given, to thaw out my toes and fingers. S. was lovely during the whole thing...he lit all the candles that were available and tried to keep things as warm as possible. I was freezing, of course. A few days later, our power was shut off and has been shut off since. We still have no clear idea why, but have received several theories...none of which are encouraging as to when we'll get the power back.
We were able to barely endure one day...and spent most of it in front of a candle trying to warm our hands or heating water over the stove for the couple hot water bottles that we had. After about 5 p.m. it got pretty dark, so we had the added burden of providing light as well...needless to day we went to bed fairly early the first night (around 7:30) with nothing else to do.
The power was turned on early the next morning (2:00 a.m.) which delighted us (it doesn't take much) only to be turned off again by 8 a.m. and lasting the rest of the day. It was pretty miserable that morning...we tried to get things done, but with no heat whatsoever and whatever candles availble being used at a pretty quck rate, we had no choice but to quit and...
Oops...have to go...
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