我住在的地方 (WHERE I LIVE)

I've been in my new place for more than a week now. It's much closer to school, in a nice area, and best of all, not in a basement. The room itself ain't anything special, but it has a window that lets in actual air from outside, a desk, a chair, and a closet with drawers and hangers -- wonderful things, all of them.

This room is also in an apartment with a real kitchen! Just when the men at the breakfast shop were starting to be nice to me, I had to go and move to a place where I can actually prepare my own food.


The balcony off the kitchen is just for laundry. But we have another one that runs the length of the street facing side of the apartment and is full of orchids, herbs, and other plants.


Here is the living room, a place without A/C and thus rarely inhabited, except for late night rehearsals for my flatmates' bluegrass band, The Pinetop Surgeons.


The roof is right upstairs and freely accessible. It actually gets a nice breeze even when the rest of the city is sweltering. And man, there is no keeping me off of a good roof. Is it possible to have acrophilia?


That giant dome is the gym at my school, and it is only about a 10 minute walk from there to class.

Our neighbors maintain a healthy garden that takes up fully half of the roof. See how pretty!



I'm especially grateful that the collarbone police have no jurisdiction over the roof. Breeze there may be, but it is a very hot breeze. And I don't know why being around Chinese people always causes me to give myself bangs. It just does.

So hooray for the neighbors giving back a little bit of the oxygen sucked daily from the city. I would thank them, but I'm rather creeped out by what they have framed outside of their door


Uhhhhhh....