While I was travelling around during the summer, whenever I happened to mention to a Chinese person that I’d be living in Harbin for a year, they’d look shocked.
“Aiyo. You know, it’s really cold there in the winter. It gets down to–”
“Minus 40,” I’d interrupt. “I know.”
I didn’t know then, of course; I had only [...]
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minus forty
beautiful
NOTE: I wrote this immediately after it happened, over two months ago, and now that I read over it, it looks like total fiction.
All I can say is that this is the complete and whole truth, and that despite my general tendency to be full of shit, you will find not a word of it [...]
further technical difficulties
OK: I’m back from Beijing, and there will be a long and highly entertaining entry later on about how everything there went wrong in exactly the right way later on.
In the meantime: I came back to Harbin to find that (a) it’s freezing and I can see my breath in my apartment; (b) the heat [...]