Wednesday, September 14, 2005

More about our apartment

(just in case you missed it, Michael is in our apartment in China and Cara is in Virginia)

Michael says:
I'm sitting here enjoying the breeze. That's right, the breeze. I have the window in our bedroom open and another window over in the dining room open, creating a channel for a breeze to whisk through the entire apartment.

It is wonderful.

Being up on the 23rd floor we don't need screens to keep out insects, and each window is door-sized to allow us to step out onto the balconies that run the outside perimeter of the apartment.
Oooo, balconies sound cool! I wonder if we can put some herbs out there?
Or maybe some flowers? Is the pollution less at that height?
- asks Cara
Another cool feature that is fairly common here in Beijing: door stops have small magnets on them to hold doors fully open, therefore there is almost no risk of a door being blown shut accidentally. A simple and effective addition to door stops. =)

Yay magnets! Got to love those ingenious engineers. Whatever will they think of next!
- says Cara

1 comment:

KirbyFur said...

Yes, I'm also curious. Have they remade the city to the grid system or is it on another pattern?