restless

Well I’m in the new apartment over a week now and starting to get settled in. I’m also getting restless. We have a travel ban in place due to economic problems that seem to be plaguing the parent company. My colleagues at the CBC and CTV are not immune to it either.

I took the job as I saw an opportunity to witness and experience a completely new culture and continent. So far I have been able to find a level of comfort with my new city. I’m able to get around using subway, taxi and good old fashion foot. Buy groceries, get my dry cleaning done, do laundry, all those mundane tasks that we all probably find eat up a day and we sometimes take for granted I can now accomplish in a perhaps butchered fashion, but get them done I do.

So now I’m restless to get out from the smog and haze of Beijing and venture forth and discover the rest of Asia.

Where would I like to go? Well let me see. Cambodia would be good. There’s little trial about to take place that might shed a little light on the death of say 800,000 people. Khmer Rouge ring a bell to anyone. Either of the Korea’s, North or South pick one. Actually looking at the North from the DMZ would be kind of interesting.

Taiwan, technically part of China, but then again so is Tibet. Nepal, Bhutan, Mongolia, Hong Kong, Macau. Those are just off the top of my head.

Well I guess we will wait and see. Two and half years to go in the contract, that time will fly by before I know it.

So I will leave you with the above photos of my new apartment and try and deal with my restlessness.