... cards with and this year I even received one from a former work colleague from England who I used to correspond with. It was indeed a good surprise.
However, when I wanted to reply, I realised I hadn’t ...
... surprised. One day in July – he recounted – he went to work at the supermarket where he is a salesman. It was a week of hard work because his boss was on holiday, and he felt under pressure. In the changing ...
... black population descendant from the slaves brought in to work in the fields and in the households gives you a totally different image of Morocco, unexpected and unknown. The Draa valley seems to be the ...
... difficulties. The young man who received me at the hostel used to work as a shoe shop assistant, after years as a social worker looking after mental patients. With sales plummetting, his boss had been ...
... by a deep sea change. There was extensive work of renovation in progress, the place was going to be turned into another Xijiang-style park. Streets were being paved all over, the stream dredged and embanked ...
... my notion to walk all that distance and tried to talk me out of it. I reassured her with the promise I’d come back by the evening if it didn’t work out, but secretly I was determined to do my best to carry ...
... and they’d have to get up at 6 to go to work the next day. In spite of all, it was indeed a great pleasure to see my friends where I just expected to find an unknown city by night.
I moved on to Kaili ...
... for me. In her offhand style the landlady popped a few fast-spoken questions to enquire about my movements.
I spent some time on the pavement in front of the hotel chatting online on a free wi-fi network ...
... amazing place, I knew my day-long search had at long last yielded fruit. I walked on the paved causeway to the village and came across a man leading two buffalos from field work. The scene reminded me ...
... lake, or paid a visit to the temple. Some people tried to walk blindfolded towards the fortune character painted on a wall with a hand stretched out to touch it.
I met my friends after they got off work. ...