A Three Hour Tour
I’ve been here in Loudi for one week. I still don’t have Internet. Or phone. Or gas (for the stove). Or a cell phone. Or a schedule, or textbooks. Or ELECTRICITY (it was out when I woke up this morning).
I also don’t have my residence permit, my Foreign Expert Visa. My liaison left for Changsha several days ago to get it, but I still haven’t heard back from her … and I don’t get it by tomorrow, I could be deported!
I’m starting to feel like Gilligan. If only the Professor was here …
August 30th, 2006 at 9:38 am EST
Just what a Mom waqnts to hear and ruminate about. Chomp. chomp!
MOM
August 30th, 2006 at 9:40 am EST
See, it made me so crazy that I misspelled a word! MOM
August 30th, 2006 at 10:23 am EST
um… doesn’t sound too organized….
August 30th, 2006 at 12:43 pm EST
ah lance! dont get deported!! :-S
August 31st, 2006 at 1:38 am EST
Organized. That’s pretty funny. Yeah, to be honest, I’m not worried. Things tend to come together here at the last minute … it’s just the way of things.
In fact, as I type, there are hundreds of students and adults at my school cleaning and fixing everything, at the last minute, before school starts. It looked like a dump last night, and I have no doubt that it’ll look awesome before the first day!
August 31st, 2006 at 3:07 am EST
yep, it sure is the way of things.
My team this summer had a lot of trouble getting train tickets yinchuan-beijing for 15 people together- and we made the deadline by less than 1/2 hour to buy them in time!
Sounds like you’re having a good orientation.
August 31st, 2006 at 12:33 pm EST
Are you still keeping things clean like mom?
September 2nd, 2006 at 8:57 am EST
Relax, lance. Don’t worry about this. No one will get deported in China. Actually, no one will check it.
One problem of China is it seems so many people are responsible for one thing but you cannot find anyone to do it. Push those people hard!
September 11th, 2006 at 3:49 pm EST
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