New Apartment

Who likes moving?

Probably not many people. Especially ones moving around a foreign country. Well, I have joined the masses and moved last Friday to what was supposed to be a "bigger, better" place.

So, on Friday, I work all day, my busiest day of the week, ride the bus for 2 hours home, then finish packing. The moving guys come and load our stuff onto the truck. Then I wait around for the damn landlord to come and check us out, making my day even longer at this point. Well, she shows up with her calculator, and tells us that we need to pay 1000RMB today for utilities. WTF?! Apparently, my company doesn't pay for the internet, nor did they believe in telling us that the landlord was getting the bills for the last 3 months, plus other bills we have in general. I can't believe it, it is like money grows on trees here too. Actually they copy it here, i just need one of those copiers. Anyway the company spotted us the cash for the utilities and off we went.

On our way..... So in a meeting we were told we would have one new roommate, a girl staff member from the company. No problem says we. BUT, this poor girl is so scared to live alone with us Americans, that she needs to have another person live with her. GREAT! Two girls, two guys, three rooms. I AM BEGINNING TO HATE BEING LIED TO AND TOLD THINGS AT THE LAST MINUTE. Well we get to our new place, which is much bigger and dirtier than our last place. At this point I am really disappointed in everything.... We went out and bought cleaning supplies and had dinner. Then the girls came over to talk for a bit... during the time we were talking, the girl stayed in her room and never came out to say hi or anything.

Well, I am going to make this short. I spent a lot of time mopping, turning the water back each time. Man, the place was dirty. Chris did the same, but he found the roaches on his adventures, all 30 of them. We went hella crazy killing them...

I'll keep writing about this, slowly.... as of now I still don't know the names of the girls in the other room....