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And I thought the first move to China was turning my life upside down!

Bus trip -- no problem. Meeting Phillips (department chair's assistant) -- also pretty clean, apart from a mixup with the cell phone SIM card that made it unusable outside of Zhuhai. Discussing places to live -- a bit overwhelming. I can't apply for residency with the government until I have a permanent address, and the Conservatory's dorm doesn't count. At present, the Clifford area of Panyu, a suburb south of Guangzhou, seems the most attractive option: nicely equipped properties, reasonable rents, good security, and plenty of transportation into the city.

After lunch, we joined the ranks of the post-Neanderthals in China by getting working SIM cards. We were dinosaurs through the summer without cell phones, but five minutes in a shop and we evolved millennia!

A few minutes online on campus took us right through to a torrential downpour that started minutes after we started walking back to the rooms. Soaked to the bone! Maybe the smaller umbrellas we brought from Zhuhai won't be enough after all.

I'm working away, trying to squeeze in as much coding before teaching duties start. Speaking of which -- a couple of days ago, that was supposed to be when general classes start in a couple of weeks. Now it's sooner -- I have a meeting in a few minutes to find out if it will be easy or hard.