So Taigu has thrown us yet another curve-ball today. My housemate Gerald and I were told, in true Chinese last minute fashion, at 1 this afternoon that we needed to meet with Xiao Fan (the director of the Foreign Affairs Office) at 5 this evening.
To say that the news we were given was surprising to us would be an understatement. We were told that our house would be undergoing repairs to the roof before the rainy season and that we would need to move out annnd that we needed to move out by this weekend, this is Thursday by the way. Then after the repairs are finished we won't be able to move back in, the house is being given to a Vice-President. We're being relocated to another house that is already undergoing renovations. So we'll be moving almost every month this semester. If this were happening in the US we would be up in arms about it but over here what can you do? Quitting would be an option, except for the $1500 price tag that comes with it to get back home, plus I wouldn't want to to begin my professional life as a quitter. Being part of this system and in this environment you just have to learn to roll with the punches.
Silver lining? The house I'll be staying in for the next month will have wireless internet. So that's something I guess.
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