Wednesday August 2nd

Aaaah, back to work! The day was long, and we worked very hard, although we were both tired. The food in the canteen was very good today, we had a good meal. Actually, we only eat Chinese food in the canteen or when we go out eating with our boss. In the weekends and in the evening we prefer western food like pasta or bread with choco or pizza.

So after a hard day of working we got back to the apartment, after our daily visit to the supermarket. But when we arrived, there was no electricity. Mmmm, not so good. No electricity means no hot water, no fridge, no freezer, no TV or DVD, no microwave and worse: no lights. Like I told you before, it gets dark here around half past 7, so we only had half an hour light left and it was already diminishing. So we cooked quickly some food (hooray for gas cooking) and ate it when the sun was setting. The flashlight I brought from Belgium broke down in the first week, so the only light we had was that of our mobiles. We called Rocky, who also lives in Clifford but in the C area (we live in the A area), and he also had no electricity. So we decided to go to the supermarket to buy some candles and a flash light. After running around in the supermarket, we finally found a led light that could go as flash light. And of course, back at the apartment, our led light was 10 minutes on and the electricity was back. It had been down for 2 hours. We watched some TV and on the news they gave typhoon news: Prapiroon (original name huh) was heading for the South of China. This is the third tropical storm since we arrived here and I think the closest until now. In Hong Kong on Tuesday we saw typhoon alarm T1, today on TV it was already T3. That could explain of course the bad weather.

http://www.hko.gov.hk/informtc/tcsignal.htm

But still, no worries, we always watch Pearl TV, that broadcast from Hong Kong, so the signal is not really right for Guangzhou. And also, Hong Kong lies by the coast while Guangzhoulies deeper into the river delta. So we don’t worry and just watch the spectacular images on TV :) The bad weather kept going on for the whole night, it was raining hard and the wind was blowing like in a storm.