M’s Kindy is not afraid to use the word easter, so we had the easter party today and M got painted up as a bunny.
I have had the week off, but we have had Xiao Xiang here enabling us to get out without the kids a few times. We have driven into the city a few times and seen lots of new areas and I am getting the hang of driving here. I am beginning to worry what my driving will be like when we visit Sydney.
Here is the smiley person. He is smiling more and more and is getting ready to walk. He can stay standing for more than just a couple of seconds by himself and he uses the furniture to cruise around and get at stuff he’s not allowed to have.
I was supposed to go and meet some guys in a cafe downtown today for a role playing game. Because I know my limits I decided to do a dry run of the trip with Alex in the car to navigate. Unfortunately I relied upon Googlemaps to get me there. Oh well. I spoke to the owner of the cafe on the phone when I got back home and checked another map for his location. It was news to the guy that Googlemaps had placed his cafe 20 minutes walk from where it really is.
At the time of discovering the mistake I was really furious at the waste of three hours, but now I have calmed down. Will I use Googlemaps again? Yes, but it will not be my go to resource anymore.
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Build pointlessly.
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looking at the picture, maybe it isn’t clear. Underneath the blue roof under construction are two buildings. They are building a building over buildings.
I know it seems like I complain a lot about the way things are done here and I also know that from time to time before I left the Land of Milk and Honey, I was also known to express my displeasure at events upon occasion. However, I present to you our landlord’s attempt at replacing the fan in our upstairs bathroom:
Thanks landlord. It’s now only slightly worse than it was before. Can you spot the sticky tape holding it in place; or not holding it in place as the case may be?
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Driving here is an amazing spectacle. What you are doing on the road is the least important thing in the world when compared with what the other driver’s actions so frequently are.
Highlights I have seen on major roads:
1. Stopping in the middle of your lane to talk to someone outside. The rest of the traffic can get stuffed.
2. Overtaking on a corner.
3. Not letting people merge ever, unless they force their way in.
4. Driving the wrong way around a roundabout.
5. Ignoring red lights: This is way too frequent, so you can’t just go when your light is green, you have to check that the other traffic is actually stopped.
Highlights I have seen on Freeways:
1. Swerving across the entire freeway to get to the exit.
2. Overtaking in the breakdown lane
3. Reversing! I am not joking. The other day we were in the middle lane (luckily) and the guy in the lane beside us (doing about 120 km/h) and slightly ahead swerved violently across into our lane because someone was reversing toward him in his lane.
Here is a transcript of conversations between an employee of the Traffic Control Department of the Public Security Organ and some fairly standard driver’s license applicants:
Traffic: So what experience do you have with cars?
Applicant: I have driven a tractor.
Traffic: Perfect. Here’s your license.
Traffic: So what experience do you have with cars?
Applicant: Last year a car ran over some of my chickens.
Traffic: Perfect. Here’s your license.
Traffic: So what experience do you have with cars?
Applicant: I have seen a picture of a car.
Traffic: Perfect. Here’s your license.
Traffic: So what experience do you have with cars?
Applicant: What is a car?
Traffic: Perfect. Here’s your license.