Wake up call
August 28th, 2008
I’ve woken up around six thirty each morning so far, but just in case my body hasn’t quite settled into this new routine, I’ve asked for a morning wakeup call for seven am. So far, it’s been a lovely transaction:
Me: “Wei?” (The common way to answer the phone in China)
Front desk guard: “Mm-hm”
Me: “Xie, xie” (“Thank you”)
I might be able to do away with the wakeup call since we’ve been woken up two days in a row now by the campus loudspeaker blasting a morning program from some radio station. Just now, for example, it is seven am and what sounded like my alarm clock in Seattle started beeping through the loudspeaker. And by loudspeaker, I mean the type of system used in, say, Safeco Field, to recap Mariners’ plays…that’s what is broadcasting this radio program at the moment across the University campus.
The sun came out for the first time yesterday and it heated Guilin up by a few degrees. We were baking in the heat. It really does feel as though you’re walking around in a sauna, which can be at times refreshing and at times disorienting.
I’ve woken up around six thirty each morning so far, but just in case my body hasn’t quite settled into this new routine, I’ve asked for a morning wakeup call for seven am. So far, it’s been a lovely transaction:
Me: “Wei?” (The common way to answer the phone in China)
Front desk guard: “Mm-hm”
Me: “Xie, xie” (“Thank you”)
I might be able to do away with the wakeup call since we’ve been woken up two days in a row now by the campus loudspeaker blasting a morning program from some radio station. Just now, for example, it is seven am and what sounded like my alarm clock in Seattle started beeping through the loudspeaker. And by loudspeaker, I mean the type of system used in, say, Safeco Field, to recap Mariners’ plays…that’s what is broadcasting this radio program at the moment across the University campus.
The sun came out for the first time yesterday and it heated Guilin up by a few degrees. We were baking in the heat. It really does feel as though you’re walking around in a sauna, which can be at times refreshing and at times disorienting.
