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BAD NEWS!
So far everything has been going swimmingly, the right stamps issued by the right departments, just one more to get, and Ted rang to say he wants to meet at Gregs apartment...
The last government department said NO to Teds application to sponsor a Z visa and residence permit application. No explanation, I meet or exceed their requirements, no reasons listed for the declined application... Just No.
So I am on a job hunt again!
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Arrival at last.
The landing was a little off, there was a rainstorm flooding the runway as we landed and the plane swayed from side to side as it braked down the runway, I presume the plane was hydroplaning or the puddles were slowing one side more than the other or something, but a very rough and wobbly landing once touched down.
So after that it was out of the baggage ...
Sleepy Time for Hoopie
... I've also included what a person looks like after 26 hours of traveling and 5 1/2 hours of sleep - ROUGH. I'm so excited about living with these pups though. They couldn't be sweeter.
I have another roommate Eddie who like Sylvie is from Melbourne. They actually went to the same high school. Eddie and I are going to be working at the same school actually which is great for me because he ...
Yo, Hangzhou
... the primary tourist attraction in Hangzhou.
West Lake is a massive freshwater lake to the West of the main city. It has been on the must see cultural map of China for close to fourteen hundred years, and with good reason. It is stunningly beautiful, and bursting with the kind of historical relevance that I was looking for with my journey to the one-time capital of Song Dynasty.
My new friends and I disembarked and got on a bus ...
Big ol' Ningbo Update
No updates for a while. I apologize as always. I've been enjoying this beautiful city of Ningbo. I've previously only been to the north, and with due respect to Tianjin, Dalian, and Beijing, (all cool cities) Ningbo is way prettier. There is bamboo here! In China! I realized that I actually haven't seen much of it in China before. It's nice. The weather has been good. Hot of course, but not polluted awfully, and with blue skies. It's a coastal city as well, so there ...