Man, it was like Animal Planet here today.

First, I saw a squirrel on my way home through Beida. Not the orange kind you see in Sweden, but a darker brown kind with a speckled back. Pretty!
Then I looked up and saw a woodpecker (I think that's what it was) just above me.





And just outside my apartment building, I saw a big toad crawling on the middle of the road.




There's also a surprising number of birds here, none of which I recognize from Sweden. I haven't tried to capture them on photo though, but they're very pretty, quite large and all blue or all green.

And for good measure, the type of bug that we've found in our apartment three times now. We have mosquito nets over all windows (OK, so that doesn't stop the mosquitoes), but how on Earth did these big things get in?



More pics coming up. Had a fun 8 AM - 5 PM school day after 2 hrs of sleep. (eternal mosquitoes buzzing around my head) Tried a new food court at Beida though - good noodles - and bought a mosquito repeller that'll hopefully work tonight. We'll see..