How much do you love me?

After six months of highly limited contact with friends and loved ones, I am happy to announce my reconnection to the western world. I know that China isn't the most convenient place to call or send packages, so I'm doing my best to make this as trouble-free for those of you who want to make your lonely, sad, poor abroad friend really really happy (okay, so I'm neither lonely nor sad, but I would like to hear from any/all of you).

3 troublefree ways to make carmen smile:

1. Call me! Home phone: 86-10-84061204, Cell phone: 86-13717644671. I have already included the country code/city code for you, so all you need is to dial 011 (international code) before these numbers. You either need an international phone card, or, see next point....

2. Skype me! Skype is a free program that you can download on the internet and use to chat with anyone from China to Botswana. The plus to this option is that it's free, free, FREE - i.e. even my poor college student friends have no excuse. My user name is carmen.wolfe - add me to your friends and we can set up a time to meet online and chat.

3. Mail me! Well, mail a package to me! Either cut/paste/print out the chinese characters below or copy the romanized translation - putting both would be best to ensure that the disgruntled chinese postman doesn't decide it's not worth his time to deal with a poor foreign girl's mail and "accidentally" lose it.

中国
北京市; 100001
东城区东直门内北小街
26号楼12单元103号
Carmen Wolfe

Carmen Wolfe
DongZhiMen Nei Bei Xiao Jie, Building 26, Apt. 12-103
Dong Cheng District
Beijing, China 100001

As an added incentive for option 3, I'm offering personalized China presents that I will carry back across the big wide Pacific in January and send to anyone whose return address I see show up at my front door. Postcards, letters, and packages all qualify :)