Well I'm back living in the English teacher's house for a few days. The chickens seem to have calmed down and haven't been trying to escape but there is a new complication. A brand new little yellowish puppy who is very friendly and bouncy and instead keeps trying to escape into the chicken's pen every time I have to go to the toilet!
It has been lovely sunny weather today and yesterday, so I handwashed clothes yesterday, and my hair in a tub in the courtyard this morning.
Keeping busy. Not much to report.
Oh there was some excitement in town a couple of days ago. I was sitting in a cafe slurping my noodles when the person standing in the doorway said excitedly 'There's a black person walking down the street?' I said 'What?' She said 'A black man, a black, black man'. The 'black, black man' had gone by the time I left the cafe, but I think I saw him later, on the back of a truck with a heap of Yi people (a local minority) heading out of town. I thought this was a little strange as usually I am the only foreigner who occasionally travels on the back of a truck around here.
The lady who just wears plastic bags and hessian sacks is still around and has apparently survived the winter. She seems to have acquired a pair of socks in the last few days though.
I went to this foul smelling place yesterday, kind of a warehouse where they had these corn kernels spread out on an enormous table with high sides and they were kind of cooking them. The girl I was with bought a huge basketfull which she carried home on her back. They were very hot, so she didn't enjoy the walk home much. I was kind of mystified as to why she was buying it until she heaved the whole basket into the tub where the chickens feed.
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