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Month: September, 2007

Got my course material & schedule…

30 September, 2007 (11:47) | Daily Life | No comments

Met with the teaching assistant today and received my teaching schedule & course material. The place where we were to meet (outside of the hotel on campus), we couldn’t find each other. It wasn’t because it was big area, just that everyone there was Chinese. When I called him then waved to […]

Got the Call!…

29 September, 2007 (17:37) | China, Daily Life, Travels | 2 comments

Well I finally got the call from the foreign language department. It was from the teaching assistant, we have an appointment for tomorrow along with the department head. Tomorrow is Sunday, and I was a bit puzzled about the working on Sunday thing (would think gov’t institution get weekends off), After bumping into my […]

Its been 2 days…

28 September, 2007 (15:12) | Daily Life | No comments

…And no one from the foreign language department has gotten a hold of me yet. I’ve been staying in my apartment with the exception to forage for food waiting for someone to come knock on the door as my landline wont be turned on and I do not yet have a mobile number or […]

Walking around Campus

26 September, 2007 (23:37) | China, Travels | No comments

After moving in, taking a nap and doing some grocery shopping…

…I took a walk around campus…

Its not really that large of a campus, but still larger than Barry
I bumped into my contact while walking around campus and he said someone from the foreign language department should be in contact with […]

Getting to Suzhou, China…

26 September, 2007 (15:14) | China, Travels | No comments

After about a total flight time of around 20 hours I made it to Suzhou, China. Thirty-three (33) hours if you want to include stop overs and driving time, but hey whose counting :-p … if you really want to know the break down …
My Place –(Taxi ~ 20 mins) –>MIA Int’l […]