An uneventful drive to our huge Apartment complex – Shama Century Park. We are living on the 16th floor in Block 12 for the next month. Great views and pretty western in terms of furniture and appliances. But….. we have only 3 saucepans, 2 knives, set of 4 cutlery and crockery, no oven pans, no dishwasher – HELP! Owen is beside himself because he does not know how he will manage to cook without even the bare essentials. 🙂
We will obviously have to do some shopping to tide us over for the next 2-3 months while we wait for the rest of our belongings to arrive. (Which have not even left the UK yet because we do not have our residence permit.)
Despite all that we do not have, we are super impressed with the electrical outlets here. Check out this photo which shows that you can plug in any device from any Country in the world without an adapter!! Next time we build a house, we are putting these in. 🙂
And, at least the windows have black out curtains so it is easy to get the kids off to sleep.
We had to give our passports to the Complex managers who have to register us with the local police. Every time we move (ie. a new address) we have to re-submit our passports to re-register with the Police. It is at events/times like this, that I remember where we are and how completely different life is going to be. Our apartment has internet connection, but we cannot access Google or Facebook without going through a VPN (Virtual Private Network) – again, another reminder about the difference from the West to China.
The views from our Apartment:
View from our Apartment. Century Park is just across the road.
Another view – the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum can be seen here.
Looking down to the playground and green space
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