On a side note

I got to Beijing on August 1st. I found our apartment and our lease began on August 25th. It is now September 17th. We have yet to find knives available in any store for our kitchen. Apparently the Beijing government has decided to ban the sale of knives until the Olympics are over. (Just in case, someone else decides to stab someone.) And that will be September 20th. No knives. We have been cutting veggies with our butter knives.

I just think that it's funny that there was no announcement of all this. I could have ended my knife search if the news would have just told me. No, the knives just disappeared and that's the theory I have come up with.