Tong Tu Yuan Hotel
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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.
The landing was a little off, there was a rainstorm flooding the runway as we landed and the plane swayed from side to side as it braked down the runway, I presume the plane was hydroplaning or the puddles were slowing one side more than the other or something, but a very rough and wobbly landing once touched down.
So after that it was out of the baggage ...
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
... 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
... a little under 10 US dollars. By this point, I had become her hands. The left hand was out of commission, and the right clutching a cell phone, periodically used to release status reports by text message, Mandarin, and her native dialect. As I was fishing out the $50 for the X-rays, she remarked "That Ambulance ride was so expensive!" That elicited a very loud, bitter laugh from me, which while entirely inappropriate in that situation, was entirely impossible ...
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