Nanyuan Inn (Ningbo Beilun Xiaogang
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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.
... 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
... 26 hours of traveling. When I arrived Sylvie and I had to roll my 50 lbs suitcases through her winding housing complex which ended up being just laughable as well as a pain in the butt. I'm told that this is the hottest week of summer they have had thus far in Ningbo. It's super humid and I've had a nice sticky layer since I got here.
Sylvie had arranged a "Welcome Back Meredith. Goodbye ...
Yo, Hangzhou
... between the two. It was fine though. I don't really mind a line as long as things more quickly, which they did on this occasion.
Got on the train, got settled, Chinese folks started trickling in. I just looked out the large window at the beautiful countryside. Despite being very densely populated in the cities, in between the landscape was totally agrarian. Fish ponds, Rice Fields, green vegetables, all being tended by human hands. ...
Big ol' Ningbo Update
... relive the fear as I did, but I won't.-
I immediately started yelling at the driver to stop, saying "That's my friend! That's my friend!" except it took me a second to switch from English to Chinese. He finally stopped the car, I got out, and made my way to her. I initially thought that she was just shocked at the experience of the accident, until I heard her say "It hurt's so much." I then noticed that her left arm was more or less frozen in place. "I ...