Back from merry old Engrand now and catching up on my China news. A few quickies:
- Phew, it’s HOT. I hate talking about the weather, but England was so nice and balmy. Beijing was alright when I left it, but it seems about 10 degrees warmer now. No more cool mornings and nights.
- I live in the happiest country! In fact, it’s perfectly happy, getting all 100 of 100 points of happiness. I used to live in the unhappiest country. This is based purely on a North Korean Global Happiness Index, though, so maybe you should take the superlative with a grain of salt.
- Li Na won at Roland Garros after a disappointing performance earlier this year in the Australian Open final. She is the first Chinese to win a Grand Slam event. Proud time to be Chinese.
- Incidentally, she won on the 22nd anniversary of May 35th, about which of course there was no mention in the Chinese media.
- A tiger escaped from the Chengdu Zoo!
What to do?? Luckily it was a fake tiger, and zookeepers and animal control/law enforcement were just doing a training exercise. No kitties were harmed.
And even though England is unrelated to China and the U.S., more to come on that.