At the office, I met the legal colleagues, who all seem nice and smart. The office building is very modern and looks corporate, both inside and out. And it’s clean, down to the smallest details:
I spent most of my time drinking coffee to stay awake in the morning (which still felt like night-time to my jetlagged system), and taking care of last remaining tasks from Holland. During the afternoon I also spent some minutes on Google maps to pinpoint the location of my apartment:
After work, Saukat dropped me off at my apartment, and I was able to unpack. The apartment is not very big (it’s about 1.5 times my living room in size), but packs most essentials and the location is good (or so they say – can’t really judge that yet until I get some time to explore during the weekend I’m afraid). The only picture I have so far is of the view from my balcony in the dark:
After unpacking, I went for a little walk to the local Carrefour supermarket (yes, a carrefour). And it’s big. Huge actually:
And I guess the visit to the Carrefour really symbolizes the first impressions I get from China: if this country has only recently awakened from communism, then they must have used an enormous alarm clock to wake it up. I didn’t really have much of any real idea of what to expect from China, but the level of commercialism and western-ness is absolutely staggering.
And I haven’t even been downtown yet…
