पेस्तो नेवर तस्तेद सो गुड

Pesto never tasted so good: Friday night we made dinner and it was fantastic. I've moved into my new apartment where I will stay for the rest of the summer. It's almost like living in a resort. I live on an island in the middle of the city. It is very green and very fenced in. The apartment complex is gated, has a huge pool, clubhouse, gym, restaurant, laundry and western store. Our apartment is on the top floor. It has a rooftop terrace. Really great views and its far too big for me and my roommate Elizabeth, another intern here for the summer. Neither of us have lived in a place this nice before. We are being treated really well, it will be hard to come back to China and not have a sweet deal like this. The rains have stopped and blue skies have arrived. It feels great but it is damn hot. I suppose its hot throughout much of the world today. Or the world that I know, everyone seems to be sweating. This morning I went to a market and all of the products there were specifically sold for the kitchen. They had everything from blenders to plastic containers to industrial size pressure cookers. That's something about China that never ceases to amaze me: the fact that markets here operate in clusters. And each stall sells the same thing. It's a wonder how any of these vendors make money. You would never see, for example, a cloth seller at the electronics market or visa versa. You have to go to 2 separate markets. Unless you go to Wal-Mart...which is everywhere here!!