After a few disasters I’m settling in nicely. After losing and finally regaining my luggage, I was in Shanghai and my suitcase was in Frankfurt, I got into my apartment. Its nice, when I’ve figured out how to post pictures I’ll show you.
I got here late on a Friday and found out that Monday was a holiday, *Tomb Sweeping day* apparently, so I had three days to prepare some lessons, find the shops and generally explore. I did some work on Saturday morning and decided to have a cigarette on the shared balcony. I went to go back in and realised that I’d locked myself out of my apartment. ( Yes I know a minor inconvenience. ) I contacted admin and they said they’d send someone round with a key. 30 minutes later a Chinese guy arrived, looked at the lock, shook his head sadly and went away. I got back to Admin to be told that they would get a key to me……on Tuesday !! Because it was the holidays natch. It was starting to dawn on me that I was in a mess, no phone, no money, no nothing apart from a packet of fags. The American guy next door took pity on me and lent me some money and I contemplated sleeping on the balcony………..