Maybe the days here seem more exhausting because it is so hot an humid outside. It literally sucks the energy out of you. Maybe it's because I have to spend all my time concentrating on what I'm listening to and saying so that I can function. Or maybe it's because I wake up at 7 am, which is 2-3 hours earlier than I ever got up in America.
Today has left me exhausted again, but I'm going to try to get as much of this down as I can before I go to bed.
We started out by doing our school orientation. We met together as a group and walked around the city for a little while holding up banners that said, "Please stare, we are different than you." (maybe not, but you'd think that's why people reacted that way). We headed up to campus and met a few professors that will be teaching us.
After we finished orientation it was 11:30 AM, we decided to go out and... I forget what we wanted to do in the afternoon. I know that we stopped by the campus pool and cafeteria to check prices, then we went to Western Union to get the money that one of my future roommates had wired to him so that we could pay for our apartment. I went to the local ICBC and withdrew some money, but the withdrawl limit was too low to get all the money I needed for rent out. I was a little annoyed until I looked at my watch and saw it was 10 minutes to 2 PM, which meant in 10 minutes it would be another day in America and I would be able to withdraw money from my account again, so it wouldn't be a problem. It worked out perfectly.
We ate on the streets, it cost 3 RMB (<0.50 USD) for our whole meal, and then I went out to take pictures.
I got some good ones, unfortunately the Chinese government doesn't want you to see them. I don't have access to the picture uploading feature on my blog, so unless I figure that out anytime soon it will just be text.
We got some really, really good fried noodles for dinner for 5 RMB (<0.80 USD), but they did give me a stomach ache. Not an, "Ewwww, I'm going to be sick" stomach ache, more like a punch in the stomach stomach ache. But it's gone now.
Tonight we went out and found a night market. I bought some speakers for my iPod and computer that are pretty nice and really cheap, then came home to get ready to move into my apartment tomorrow.
Today has left me exhausted again, but I'm going to try to get as much of this down as I can before I go to bed.
We started out by doing our school orientation. We met together as a group and walked around the city for a little while holding up banners that said, "Please stare, we are different than you." (maybe not, but you'd think that's why people reacted that way). We headed up to campus and met a few professors that will be teaching us.
After we finished orientation it was 11:30 AM, we decided to go out and... I forget what we wanted to do in the afternoon. I know that we stopped by the campus pool and cafeteria to check prices, then we went to Western Union to get the money that one of my future roommates had wired to him so that we could pay for our apartment. I went to the local ICBC and withdrew some money, but the withdrawl limit was too low to get all the money I needed for rent out. I was a little annoyed until I looked at my watch and saw it was 10 minutes to 2 PM, which meant in 10 minutes it would be another day in America and I would be able to withdraw money from my account again, so it wouldn't be a problem. It worked out perfectly.
We ate on the streets, it cost 3 RMB (<0.50 USD) for our whole meal, and then I went out to take pictures.
I got some good ones, unfortunately the Chinese government doesn't want you to see them. I don't have access to the picture uploading feature on my blog, so unless I figure that out anytime soon it will just be text.
We got some really, really good fried noodles for dinner for 5 RMB (<0.80 USD), but they did give me a stomach ache. Not an, "Ewwww, I'm going to be sick" stomach ache, more like a punch in the stomach stomach ache. But it's gone now.
Tonight we went out and found a night market. I bought some speakers for my iPod and computer that are pretty nice and really cheap, then came home to get ready to move into my apartment tomorrow.
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