It is a nice looking box. iPhone 5.
There is even an information guide and all the places in the
world to contact Apple. If there was a real iPhone 5 then this would be
somewhat of a clone but since there is not it is just the China iPhone 5 idea thingy that looks like an iPhone though the software is
a bit lacking. I paid 300 Yuan about $47 USD in the street stall or actually
table in downtown Dalian. I saw it later for 288 Yuan but what is a couple of
dollars amongst friends? It says 64 gig on the box but
I think it is more like 64 mg as it says no more memory after two photos. I
took one with the front and one with the back camera – both are crap. Now there
does not seem to be enough memory to save a phone number. But not to worry as a phone it rings loudly and the time is right whereas
my Google Android phone is tired and needs replacing.
To activate my real iPhone I have to wait until we get to Australia for winter
break to unlock it as no one can do it here - they say it is too new. But I
felt trendy for five minutes and that is the purpose of a clone or, well it is
not a clone, I actually have the iPhone 5. Now if I could clone a younger me I
could feel trendy for even longer. The iTerrell
5 available in downtown China.
We had a great day, riding
the light rail into Dalian with about ten others from school. We went to a fabrics & textiles market; about six floors of just too much
material. It was much more organized than the one we saw at the beginning of
October in Hanoi. That one was a bit of a mess though cheaper and actually more
interesting. I bought some wool for a suit coat and some tricked-out Asian
material for the lining and for the lining of another vest. I am getting into
vests as I found one of our locals who works at school has a husband who makes
clothing and I can get really trippy looking things made. I bought material in
Hanoi a couple of weeks ago and those vests came out good now I am going for
more. I may have to wait as not only are a lot of others getting things made
but too many children are having Halloween customs made for next week. Narda got a lot of material for winter clothing and she has
a new dress or skirt or whatever those things women wear is called from
material she got in Hanoi. So between getting some new threads and an iPhone 5
that really does little more than rings loudly which is really all one needs in
a phone it was a good day. As always we were not the only ones headed into
town.
Last weekend we took a day
bike trip around our area and found a quiet fishing village. It was quite a
contrast to all the construction for the million dollar French style homes
going up across the street from us.
And that is it for this
week. Nothing more… just odd things like next Monday the electricity will be
shut off for all of the Golden Pebble Beach area from eight AM until five PM.
It will be interesting for me teaching my computer courses. Luckily it is the
day I have my class in publication and we are working on morning announcements,
something I started at the beginning of the school year; DAISlive,
a video show we do. It is fun and the students love it. I am finding that even
my EAL (English as an additional language – formally ESL, English as a second
language) students who have English as a second or third language are embracing
it. So far it is only played in the school but my idea is to someday have it as
a WebTV. We don’t need electricity for it this Monday, just our video camera
and the announcements and some stories and I have a backup battery for my
computer so I can edit and have it ready to put live for the school the
following morning. We did not have electricity for a day a couple of weeks ago
and my web design class made sketches and storyboards for their web pages. So
all in all we don’t really need electricity. This is China,
we learn to live with whatever we are presented with. Though now I am a bit
annoyed that I cannot get onto Facebook or Twitter or Youtube
even with a VPN; what is with that? But it looks as if my wordpress
account (neuage.me) works and so does my account at blog.neuage.info and I
think wordpress sends an announcement to my twitter
and facebook accounts so no one can read it which is
the nature of my life. I suppose having five-planets in Leo was too good of a
thing; no one notices me.
Narda moved her blog from blog.narda.us as she was unable to update it to http://blog.travelpod.com/members/nbiemond