This morning Miao, her mother and I went to buy tea in the market across the road from Sanba Square Carrefoure. We bought 600g of green tea to be split up and given to my family as presents. The man used an ingenious machine to extract the air from and seal 6 plastic/foil packets of tea at once. I then went to the gym to have a shower while Miao went to get some other items and new prescription contact lenses.

Having gotten home first, I proceeded to copy music and videos to my iPod as I’ve recently re-installed windows on my computer and there’s no mechanism for iTunes to preserve a partnership across installs.

Miao got home, we had lunch and proceeded to pack for our 22:36 train to Beijing. We’re aiming to be at the station in plenty of time (an hour before) so that we can be at the front of the queue to avoid the inevitable crowded craziness of everybody scrambling to get their luggage onto the racks. More Tommorrow.