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Strairway to heaven
Longji Terraced Fields is in the Heping town in Longsheng, a 2 hours drive from Guilin. The terraced rice fields, like ladders, wind from the bottom of the mountain to the top. The elevation varies from 380 meters to 880 meters with a drop of 500 meters. First built during the Yuan Dynasty, these rice fields were built with the determination, sweat …
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.
... relating to my new job. Ted was happy when he came back to the car with them.
Ended up in Fenghua a half hour drive south of Ningbo where the school is located. My new workplace is a franchise branch of the Shanes English Schools network. I have a little one room apartment until the teacher I am replacing leaves and I move into his emptied apartment.
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Sleepy Time for Hoopie
Today was my first full day back in Ningbo, China. It's so odd to arrive in such a different foreign place and it not feel like that much has changed. This time around I'm living in another part of town which I don't know that well so I feel lost in the area, but in terms of feeling lost...I think that I've figured it out this time.
I got to Nick and Sylvie's house at 6pm on Tuesday Aug ...
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. ...