More adapted excerpts from emails, these from March 2008.
The vocational school where we worked.
We just hired a new secretary from the vocational school we work with. I don’t think she’s left her hometown before, and at 18 this is a big move. Her parents are here to drop her off, and they’re staying with me until she can find her own place.
She’s never seen a microwave or a washing machine before. She was afraid to put vegetables in the fridge before cleaning them. I think most people in China still don’t own fridges, even though that’s changing.
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