My Apartment

The living room

Colourful bedroom decor

Dining room / Kitchen

I thought you might like to see what a Shanghai apartment looks like.  It is larger than I expected, consisting of a living room, dining / kitchen, 2 bathrooms and 2 bedrooms.  The decor is quite modern and sleek - at least the main rooms are.  The bedroom linen is....interesting!






The floors are all hardwood and tiles in the bathrooms.  They are mopped twice a week and my contract stipulates no hard-soled shoes.  This is fairly normal.  Among other things you don't want to drag into the house all the nasties that lurk on the streets outside.







In the kitchen, instead of a conventional stove, there is a gas wok stove.  with 2 deep indentations just the right size for a wok and vents along the top rim.  Quite ingenious, really.  No oven of course so I am thankful that I have my little oven arriving with my shipment.  In fact, it will be interesting to see if I can fit everything in.  If not, I have lots of storage space at school and I will put school things there.  Sue had a great idea which I may use - I may pull the refrigerator out and put it next to the water dispenser and get shelves made for the refrigerator cavity.  That way I can get the microwave off the countertop and have a bit more space.  We will see what I can find when the time comes.

No news on my shipment yet.  I had hoped it would arrive before the October vacation, but my documentation will not be ready yet by then, so it has not yet been sent off.  I am learning to be minimalist!

I did buy a couple of things yesterday (besides groceries) - a wok and a rice cooker, neither of which I have in my shipment (there was no point brining coals to Newcastle)!  A nice man helped me carry some of the things up the stairs.

xxx,
Shanghaisuz