Ningbo Xiandai 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.
... 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
... I've also included what a person looks like after 26 hours of traveling and 5 1/2 hours of sleep - ROUGH. I'm so excited about living with these pups though. They couldn't be sweeter.
I have another roommate Eddie who like Sylvie is from Melbourne. They actually went to the same high school. Eddie and I are going to be working at the same school actually which is great for me because he ...
Yo, Hangzhou
... the primary tourist attraction in Hangzhou.
West Lake is a massive freshwater lake to the West of the main city. It has been on the must see cultural map of China for close to fourteen hundred years, and with good reason. It is stunningly beautiful, and bursting with the kind of historical relevance that I was looking for with my journey to the one-time capital of Song Dynasty.
My new friends and I disembarked and got on a bus ...
Big ol' Ningbo Update
... Almost getting in front of it. I was unsure what to do. She kept staring at me, waving her hand in the gesture for come here. It was as she was on the side of the car that I recognized her.
It was Vivian.
Her taxi was sandwiched between the front and back car, the metal bent up on either end. It was totaled. - I'm going to pause here and say that she's okay. It would be more exciting from a narrative standpoint to carry the suspense, so that ...