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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

... 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

A travel blog entry by srimmel

... point out before I move on though that I never paid for any tickets. My new friend, affectionately called "Zhong Zhong" paid for our bus and train tickets, and would not hear of repayment. My new friends were in full guest-host mode, and would not be moved. So I thanked them, exchanged emails, and struck out on my own. Now, my philosophy for this Hangzhou trip was to just take things as they came. I had 7 hours before my train left, and a lot of lake ...

Big ol' Ningbo Update

A travel blog entry by srimmel

... There was kind of a fun moment after I said that an Ambulance ride could cost over a thousand US dollars in the States when she realized I had said "dollars" and not "yuan." That proved an interesting topic of conversation while we were waiting for her X-rays to come back.

I went to get water at one point, and when I got back, a friend of her mother's had come to the hospital and I was more or less redundant. We said goodbye not long after that, though ...