In other news, all is well. My apartment is twice the size I imagined it to be. Everything is stupid cheap. The people at the office I work at are super nice. I'm finally adjusting to the 12 hour time difference which is HUGE! My first cab driver fell in love with me and the cab only cost $2. Sweet!
A note about the language....it's true, the Chinese definitely do not speak English. I don't think I've ever flailed my arms in public as much as I have in the past 3 days. No joke. The best is when, despite seeing my blank face when the Chinese people speak to me, they keep speaking in Mandarin, just repeating themselves. Not to worry, I am a girl on a mission. I carry with me two dictionaries at all time. One for just word translation and one with phrases. The only problem is, I can't pronounce a lick of it. I directly translate words (for example when I tried to tell the cabbie the other morning who fell in love with me, that he sang good) they have no clue what I'm saying. People, I'm trying. Good news though, help is on the way, tonight I meet with Jiadong my "language partner". Perhaps he can set me straight, but probably not.
BIG NEWS! Today I took the subway home. Oooooooo Ahhhhhhhhh! I looked and felt like an idiot as I tried to figure out how and where you put your ticket in to validate that it is in fact legitimate. Honestly, I don't think you do, I don't think anyone actually pays. They just walk on through, hop on the train and go go go. I will tell you this however, the train (I rode on two to get home) was nothing compared to the mayhem of the 4, 5, 6 train in New York. Not kidding on that one folks, the 4, 5, 6 trains are officially worse than Chinese rush hour and that friends, is saying something. Bloomberg, get on it already!
Tomorrow's big news will be opening up a Chinese bank account (a girl's gotta get paid) and perhaps even buying a cell phone. WOW moving up in the world.
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