Friday, March 30, 2007

 

Family life

Yang is my host - he's a tour guide at a music musem.
I don't know the names of the other family members - it's consdered too tricky.
They are

Father-of manages some maintenance activity at or near Tiananmen.

Mother-of is housewife

Wife-of is a nurse.

Baby-of is 4 months old. He seems to get the full-time attention of at least one adult whenever he is awake and often two. In the morning, father-of leaves at 8am baby arrives soon after with wife-of, or Yang who breakfast then go to work, leaving baby-of with mother-of.

In the evening, all the family eat together (to the accompianment of Chinese news in Chinese or English documentaries about China) except the rota'd babyminder who alternately raises the baby-of to hyper level 7 and then tries to soothe it to sleep with random whistling.

Then mother-of and wife-of take baby-of across to Yang's apartment for sleep. After about half-an-hour Yang and mother-of switch apartments. During that half-hour basketball may be watched on TV.


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