Our Apartment

One of the benefits of teaching at BIT is a furnished apartment... Grace and I have been in touch with a couple who has been teaching there two years; they've been kind enough to send us pictures of their 3BR/1BA apartment saying that ours will have an identical lay-out!
This will be my (Greg's) 8th move in 8 years, so not as challenging to adapt to a housing change... and beautiful as Grace's home of the past 14 years is, she's excited about our "new digs" which will reportedly be on the third floor of the complex. One thing that might take a little getting used to is what our future colleagues call the "shoilet" (pictured below)... it is combination shower/toilet/sink/washing machine... now that's efficiency!














We look forward to having you all come visit us once we are settled in!

Specifics of our Assignment

We found out tonight that we'll be teaching at the Liangxiang campus of the Beijing Institute of Technology (one of the top-tier universities in China with a student body of over 45,000) Liangxiang is a "satellite town" (suburb) of the capital; it is located in the Fangshan District on the southwest corner of the Celestial City (population 20 million... roughly that of the entire state of New York... NYC is home to 8 million)