I got a mobile phone today. Well, actually I’m borrowing one of the family’s old phones, a Nokia 7260. However I did have to buy a SIM card for $20 ($15 for the card plus $5 of prepaid time). It works out to 3 cents per minute for local calls using the prepaid credit. Text messaging is 1.3 cents per message. Phone number is +86 135-2113-9009.
There is heat in the building now, so not quite freezing all day long. I don’t have a private bedroom anymore. The son in the family is now sleeping on a mattress on the floor in the room. So I get to enjoy his 6AM alarm clock everyday now.
I visited a place called 798 Art Zone. It is a strange old communist style factory area converted into art galleries. I felt like I was walking around the computer game Half-life 2. There were above ground steam pipes and in certain areas see water and steam coming out. A train pushing a car of coal to a power station I think.