Its that time of year.... Well the end of the contract time, and since we have been out here a year our medical was out of date!
Since we want to get some travelling done we decided to go today and so packed up a bag and made our way out to meet the school driver.
We had been told that we would have to make our own way to wenzhou as the car was busy. Apparantly the headteacher mr yang need the car to go to an important school meeting, meaning we were stuck with the old taxi - 1.5 hour bus - taxi with an added really early start! Also since it was the last day of term all the teachers would also have to work and so also couldnt help us!
At the last minute, the day before, Elaine met the driver in a small eatery near her house and managed to persuade him somehow to help us and let the headmaster make his own way there! I'm not quite sure how but it was very lucky!
Elaine also managed to get the day off to come with us and help us out, and see just how bad getting a medical with chris really is.
After our later start, helped by the car, we got to the wenzhou foreign travel hospital for around 10 and went through the familiar ultrasound, eyetest, chest xray, ecg, etc etc as well as the dreaded blood test!
We let chris go first and with me holding his wrist and his shoulder, Elaine holding his hand and his head away the rather confused nurse managed to remove the needed vial of blood with, for chris, little fuss. He really is scared of needles! After him was my turn but i was no problem, interesting and no fear!
The tests are all in various little rooms and outside each some flipflops to change into for each room and as it was pretty quiet when we were there all the doctors and nurses milling around in the coridoor and occasionally grabbing a quick smoke.
This time we had a bit of a laugh with them and i asked the ultrasound woman if she could see my baby (in Chinese) and she was very surprised, then had the doctor in the stretching room teaching me the Chinese for arms up, arms back, jump etc, haha.
After the madness finished around 10.30 we had to wait until 4pm to pick up our results, we went for a lovely meal in a restaurant Elaine knows, chris found snails, i had a frogs legs and we also had lots of other tasty things.
Walking back we saw a wenzhou wedding which i tried to take a picture of, (attached) but if you can't see there was a black brand new Ferrari for the bride and groom, then 6 new Porsche cayenne, and a few black BMW 4x4s for the remaining special guests, crazy!
Picked it up ok but the driver didn't wait for us so had to wait over an hour for a taxi just to get to the bus station to take us back, unfortunately this means that we missed the end of term teacher meal which is a shame! Next time maybe!
Since we want to get some travelling done we decided to go today and so packed up a bag and made our way out to meet the school driver.
We had been told that we would have to make our own way to wenzhou as the car was busy. Apparantly the headteacher mr yang need the car to go to an important school meeting, meaning we were stuck with the old taxi - 1.5 hour bus - taxi with an added really early start! Also since it was the last day of term all the teachers would also have to work and so also couldnt help us!
At the last minute, the day before, Elaine met the driver in a small eatery near her house and managed to persuade him somehow to help us and let the headmaster make his own way there! I'm not quite sure how but it was very lucky!
Elaine also managed to get the day off to come with us and help us out, and see just how bad getting a medical with chris really is.
After our later start, helped by the car, we got to the wenzhou foreign travel hospital for around 10 and went through the familiar ultrasound, eyetest, chest xray, ecg, etc etc as well as the dreaded blood test!
We let chris go first and with me holding his wrist and his shoulder, Elaine holding his hand and his head away the rather confused nurse managed to remove the needed vial of blood with, for chris, little fuss. He really is scared of needles! After him was my turn but i was no problem, interesting and no fear!
The tests are all in various little rooms and outside each some flipflops to change into for each room and as it was pretty quiet when we were there all the doctors and nurses milling around in the coridoor and occasionally grabbing a quick smoke.
This time we had a bit of a laugh with them and i asked the ultrasound woman if she could see my baby (in Chinese) and she was very surprised, then had the doctor in the stretching room teaching me the Chinese for arms up, arms back, jump etc, haha.
After the madness finished around 10.30 we had to wait until 4pm to pick up our results, we went for a lovely meal in a restaurant Elaine knows, chris found snails, i had a frogs legs and we also had lots of other tasty things.
Walking back we saw a wenzhou wedding which i tried to take a picture of, (attached) but if you can't see there was a black brand new Ferrari for the bride and groom, then 6 new Porsche cayenne, and a few black BMW 4x4s for the remaining special guests, crazy!
Picked it up ok but the driver didn't wait for us so had to wait over an hour for a taxi just to get to the bus station to take us back, unfortunately this means that we missed the end of term teacher meal which is a shame! Next time maybe!
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