First week in Beijing

Ojojoj!

One week has quickly passed since we arrived in Beijing.

We have moved in to our brand new apartment, and somewhat settled down a little. Well, the flooding in the bathroom is still not fixed, but the leakage in the kitchen is settled. The toilet water pre-paid card has been topped up, so it should last for another few flushes...

Can you imagine that we have to top up six different utilities meters: toilet water, warm water in the bathrooms, warm water in the kitchen, electricity, gas, and cold water. Hope we won´t forget too many times ;). Maybe our new ayi (cleaning helper) can support us a bit here.

Olof has started at his job at Ericsson and Sam starts her new job at IKEA tomorrow. We have already done some shopping at IKEA, and more will come. The apartment has to yet be fully furnished, and we have spent quite some time checking out different stores that suit our tastes.

Food! Finding quality food is not easy, not at least if you don´t want to pay a much higher price than in Sweden. Check out Jenny Lou's! The same can of crushed tomatoes cost 3rmb more than carrefour! Anyway, we are continuing sussing out the cheapest grocery bargains in town and try to eat home-sweet-home cooked food (read: Sam).

We have also tested the gym facilities close to our apartment in order to quickly get back to our healthy life style and not denigrate into lumps of corpulent human flesh. So, first orange juice in the morning and then enough sleep at night. Now regular sport activities.

That´s our short summary of the first week.

Stay beautiful, you!

Sam and Olof