We've found a home in our new city! We're so thankful! We're the only foreigners in our half of the neighborhood. There are a total of 30+ buildings in our our complex. There are three minority groups that live here: Tibetan, Hui Muslim, and Han Chinese.
This is our building! We're on the second floor window on the left. Also very thankful that to enter the blue door to our building we have to have a key (a lot of times its just broke).
The little exercise area in front of our building.
I see lots of interesting cultural things happen in our complex, such as Tibetan monks walking and praying with their prayer beads and Tibetan women doing dances in the mornings. Recently the Hui Muslims celebrated Kurban Bayram (Feast of the Sacrifice-honors Abraham for being willing to sacrifice his son before God intervened) and I watched many families sacrifice, slaughter, and butcher cows right outside my front door.
The area where kiddos play! We love that our little neighborhood is full of families!
Folks usually just sit on the benches for hours chatting or reading. This is also the area where the ladies do their dances in the morning
The entrance to our xiao qu (neighborhood)
Little store and post office right out front our gate
The street that we walk up to get to our gate entrance (its about a 7 minute walk from the main road)
Very thankful to have a bus stop on the main road near our new place
