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Catching My Breath

Just flew in from Beijing this afternoon and have one helluva task ahead of me trying to capture the last two weeks we spent travelling around China (part of that struggle includes battling Kim for the computer!)

We haven't unpacked yet but I am showered and feeling rested, so will try and post as much over the next few days as possible while it is all still fresh. Of course Kim is one step ahead and has already begun her much more thorough narrative and uploaded most of her photos. It's a tough act to follow.

Before I begin the stories though, I want to do this fun little exercise.

Keith and Drew told me to:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

The book is John Bailey's The White Divers Of Broome:

Six weeks of steady diving went on, and after 'their ears were broken,' the Sooloo men did fairly well.

I received this book as a Christmas present from Kim's mother a couple of years ago, and have been meaning to read it ever since, but it just sat on the backburner as web site projects, bass guitar practice and other books got in the way. I was about halfway through it when we left for China, and for some reason didn't take it with me on the trip (oh how I longed for it on that 14 hour overnight train from Qing Dao...) Anyway, it is an amazing and rich portrait of a colonial town with a fascinating history, and I am going to pick up where I left off to read myself to sleep tonight.

Tune in tomorrow for the first instalment of the trip to China.