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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.
... 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
... 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
... I started walking in the direction of where the bus had dropped us off (about a mile and half I'd say) and just took in the sights.
The wonderful thing (well, one of the wonderful things) about West Lake is that while there are plenty of very crowded areas, there are also many small quiet places. I saw the Seal Engraver's Society, which held stone tablets of various shapes that have written on them the oldest surviving examples of ...
Big ol' Ningbo Update
... 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 ...
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