We arrived in Hangzhou on June 19 and will be here until August 7. With some funding from the University of Rochester, Owen is carrying out a project at a genomic research center at Zhejiang University's medical school. I'm along for the ride, and actually enjoying this temporary period of absolutely no real responsibility and being in China with no strings attached. There are downsides to where we are - we are in the 'remote' campus of Zhejiang University and even the locals laugh when we tell them where we live; it's hot and humid and the mosquitos are vicious; and I'm still partial to NE China - but we're making things work and I've found several things to fill my days (with the option to sit around and do nothing but read almost always open). We've bought a crappy bike which gets us to where we need to go, found a great breakfast spot (more on that later), have made our bed a mosquito-free haven with the simple purchase of a mosquito net/tent, and I've found two Chinese department tutors from north of here (one even from Harbin!)
This free time should also allow me to keep an active commentary on the food in our life. I've already got a number of entries in my head and photos downloaded off my camera that I'm about to start putting together now. It's been a bit of a delay with blogspot blocked for the first few days we were here, then the search for an internet place where the USB drive wasn't locked away. I think I've found my dusty, dimly-lit place though and while it gets quite busy in the evenings, I can come here in the mornings and work in relative peace with just the hard-core guys who played games through the night and a smattering of other males who make me wonder why they don't need to get jobs.
My workspace
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