Double 11 and 007.
It turns out attending uni and writing a blog and being an au pair and writing a blog are two very different things. Basically I spend enough time writing and staring at screens and books that blogging has been moved down the priorities list. Also all the things I wan’t to talk about are piling up and glaring at me reproachfully. SO I’m ignoring the past two months and will hopefully get back to them, because lots of both interesting and amusing things did happen. For now however I’m going to write about some very capitalist occurrences that happened this week. The first is the Double 11 sales, for those not in the know, take America’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday ( I’m not even bothering to include our pitiful Boxing Day sales), and triple it and you’re still not even close to the amount of money spent on single’s day. 91 billion RMB this year, and I am proud to say I joined in. I have already done half my Christmas shopping, yes I’m that smug person that come December will have f
