My new apartment

It’s been over a month since I moved to this new two-bedroom apartment in Daxing on July 19, one day before the Olympic traffic restriction sets in.  I’d worried about whether removers could drive their van to my neighborhood if the restriction bit. It’s just two blocks away from the Bird’s Nest, which faces the Water Cube across a street. Too close to the Olympic center to be overlooked in the traffic control. So my wife and I planned a removal date to beat the restriction.

The apartment is located near an expressway and very close to downtown Daxing. It’s within walking distance to my wife’s hospital and two hours away from my office in Chaoyang.  The good news is that I don’t have to commute to and fro every day to work – I can work from home and only commute to my office when necessary.

The apartment has only one balcony, which faces south and where I can hang out quilts and pillows in the sun. This was impossible for the past four years at the Yayuncun apartment we shared with three or four other people (The tenants in the room next to mine came and went while I lived there for four solid years). The shared balcony faces north and is too crowded, neglected and therefore too dusty and dirty to accommodate large quilts.

My mother-in-law and her mother is coming to visit us tomorrow. It’s been two years and a half since they last saw my wife  at our wedding in January 2006.