Exploring Today (Yesterday)
Wrote this yesterday, but didn’t get chance to post it here:
Exploring today: found some delicious speakers, but decided they were probably too expensive; also found some very cheap in-the-ear headphones, but decided they were probably too cheap; bought some apples and had a bizarre exchange with the apple-seller; was told by a lady in a DVD store that I was pretty, then told her that she was pretty too (there was blushing); tasted a nice syrupy cake; wandered around and thought about whether or not I needed a digital camera (pretty sure I don’t, but…); met some amusing, lively people at work, one of whom used to study in Xi’an (“I miss the food”, she said); chatted with a wise lady who remembered being given candy by US soldiers when they liberated Germany (and last night that same lady talked about how once, while living in Paris and missing home, she had listened to Gounoud’s Faust; her description of some of the closing scenes — the depiction of The Brocken? — has stuck in my mind). More exploring tomorrow.