"The others"

Those of you who watch Lost can appreciate this.

In the past week, we had multiple sightings of other foreigners in Xipu. Even though our neighborhood is far from the foreign community in Chengdu, it is not unprecedented to see a white face hear or there. But those were usually one-time events.

This, however, is different. They are shopping in our stores, and eating in our restaurants. They are entering and exiting the gates of our apartment complexes. Something is up. "The others" have infiltrated our territory. We must do something!

[someone pointed out to me today that we are actually more like "the others" because we were here first...I am going to ignore that for the time being]

Actually, "the others" are a team of 5 teachers who will be working at the foreign language school down the street. They are all Americans, and I think all are new to China. So perhaps we have some new friends?

-alan