I enjoy a lazy morning.  It’s been a little frustrating as well.  Our cable TV has only 4 channels in English (ESPN Asia, CNN Asia, HBO Asia, and Star Movies).   None of them have been working for the last week. The signal is badly garbled.  No problem!  I’ll just watch HULU or Amazon Prime.  Wrong!  Our internet is really slow also.  That makes for lots of waiting when I’m working on the computer.  Ugh!

I leave in time to taxi over to the South German Bakery and pick-up my cake.  I also get several different loaves of German bread, and grab a taxi for the trip to BHSFIC.  This is the first time I’ve ridden a cab over to my school.  It just seemed too far away and cost prohibitive.  I didn’t want to trust my cake and breads on a crowded train, so the taxi worked great.  It cost about 50rmb ($8.50).  Since I’ve always been below ground in a train on my trips in the past, today’s trip is really interesting.  I saw sections of Beijing I’d only seen in photos.  It was a fun trip.  Rolled by the Tian’anmen Square area.  We haven’t been able to visit here yet, but it’s at the top of our “to do” list.

We have an enjoyable potluck dinner at BHSFIC.  There were 16 in attendance.  Mr. An, our Head of School, brought a couple of homemade Chinese desserts that I’d never tried.  I’m still not sure what was in them, but they were great.  The cake and breads were a hit.  No cake leftovers, but I managed to bring some of the bread home.  I’ll try to leave a little for Judy when she gets home tomorrow.

She checks in around 10:00 pm.  Her roommate isn’t feeling well, so Judy doesn’t have much chance to talk about Shanghai.  I’ll get the lowdown when she gets back late tomorrow night.