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BAD NEWS!

A travel blog entry by rnf2

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.

A travel blog entry by rnf2

... and I met Greg, the head foreign teacher, Neil, another FT, and Ted the owner of the new school with one of the senior local staff, Lee, who translated for Ted to Greg, Neil and Me.

After bumming around some malls in Ningbo and having lunch at Pizza hut, it was off to Fenghua, with a stop at the Ningbo local government offices to pick up some stamped ...

Sleepy Time for Hoopie

A travel blog entry by meredith76

... get together in Laowaitan which is the foreign section of town. Even though a year had gone by, it was almost comical how little had changed. There are some new faces, but the feeling was just the same. I guess that's true anywhere though. It was great to see everyone again.

I entered zombie mode early in the evening, but still didn't make it to bed until rather late. After about 5 1/2hours ...

Yo, Hangzhou

A travel blog entry by srimmel

... I immediately became the center of attention for the rest of the train ride. The woman across from me was travelling a man who I assume is her husband, and spoke a bit of English. She helped translate when my poor Chinese or some of the room's occupant's thick accents threw me for a loop. It came to pass that I was invited to join a young woman at the other end of the cabin, along with her boyfriend and another friend of theirs on their adventures at ...

Big ol' Ningbo Update

A travel blog entry by srimmel

... learning that the X-ray showed she had two broken fingers. We spent a minute or two practicing how to pronounce the word "Fracture," after that.

The hospital didn't posses the same OCD antiseptic cleanliness that an American hospital would have had, but it also looked perfectly safe. It smelled fine, and it seemed a lot more human that most hospitals I've ever been to. China is still a developing country in some ways, but they seem to be doing a pretty ...