So the new job were pushing us to arrive asap and yet we had to go to hongkong still before the new term in a week. And this was sunday night.
this would be ok and a week would be enough except that our passport was in wenzhou and needed collecting, we then had to go for a medical too, and we had a flight booked for the tuesday, so monday we had a lot to do!
Monday early i got up, feeling very sick, and not wanting to do any long journey, we held off leaving until 8 and elaine brought some medicine and we set off with me still feeling sick and so not driving.
The medical place had a last registration time of 10.15 and we were arriving into wenzhou at 9.30 and we suddenly thought that we needed our passports as id for the medical! A quick change of plan and chris and i ran into the police station, paid the 15gbp visa extension fee and grabbed our passports mercifully quickly before jumping back in the car to the medical. Amazingly we made it in time and the three of us checked in just in time.
We went through the standard battery of tests, eye, ears, height, weight, ultrasound, xray, heart rythm, etc, and got our included breakfast thrown over the counter, a grotty cake and a carton of milk. Chris handled the blood test much better and managed to grit his teeth and power through despite an old and incredibly slow woman doing it. I neglected to mention my asthma and the 8 different types of pills i had taken that morning (chinese doctors recommendation) and the food i had eaten (against their orders), of course we all passed the tests with no problems!
After taken the tests we had to wait until the afternoon to collect our certificates and so had 5 hours to kill in wenzhou....
We drove to a restaurant for lunch and ordered lots, i was feeling pretty destroyed by the chinese pills i had taken that morning (chinese prefer medicine that makes you drowsy so you "feel it working") so i was so tired and was not hungry at all. i curled up on the couch opposite those two and had a nap, elaine was also really tired and since we were the drivers after lunch we went and found a hotel and the three of us checked in for a couple of hours, pretty common in china, and got a nap for an hour or so.
After our nap we picked up the test results and i drove back as the least dead of the two.
When we got back we packed any unneeded stuff up and left it in the school and packed to leave the hotel tomorrow to go to hong kong. As we were leaving stuff in the school we got spotted by my lin our old boss! He called to ask elaine what we were upto and so we went up, gave him a gift of some english tea and said thank you and goodbye, a lovely man, he talked with me about the 7 types of tea in china and insisted on giving us a sample of some of them as a gift, i doubt we will ever have a boss as good as him!
After saying goodnight i really felt the tiredness kick in again and back to the hotel for a much needed bed!
this would be ok and a week would be enough except that our passport was in wenzhou and needed collecting, we then had to go for a medical too, and we had a flight booked for the tuesday, so monday we had a lot to do!
Monday early i got up, feeling very sick, and not wanting to do any long journey, we held off leaving until 8 and elaine brought some medicine and we set off with me still feeling sick and so not driving.
The medical place had a last registration time of 10.15 and we were arriving into wenzhou at 9.30 and we suddenly thought that we needed our passports as id for the medical! A quick change of plan and chris and i ran into the police station, paid the 15gbp visa extension fee and grabbed our passports mercifully quickly before jumping back in the car to the medical. Amazingly we made it in time and the three of us checked in just in time.
We went through the standard battery of tests, eye, ears, height, weight, ultrasound, xray, heart rythm, etc, and got our included breakfast thrown over the counter, a grotty cake and a carton of milk. Chris handled the blood test much better and managed to grit his teeth and power through despite an old and incredibly slow woman doing it. I neglected to mention my asthma and the 8 different types of pills i had taken that morning (chinese doctors recommendation) and the food i had eaten (against their orders), of course we all passed the tests with no problems!
After taken the tests we had to wait until the afternoon to collect our certificates and so had 5 hours to kill in wenzhou....
We drove to a restaurant for lunch and ordered lots, i was feeling pretty destroyed by the chinese pills i had taken that morning (chinese prefer medicine that makes you drowsy so you "feel it working") so i was so tired and was not hungry at all. i curled up on the couch opposite those two and had a nap, elaine was also really tired and since we were the drivers after lunch we went and found a hotel and the three of us checked in for a couple of hours, pretty common in china, and got a nap for an hour or so.
After our nap we picked up the test results and i drove back as the least dead of the two.
When we got back we packed any unneeded stuff up and left it in the school and packed to leave the hotel tomorrow to go to hong kong. As we were leaving stuff in the school we got spotted by my lin our old boss! He called to ask elaine what we were upto and so we went up, gave him a gift of some english tea and said thank you and goodbye, a lovely man, he talked with me about the 7 types of tea in china and insisted on giving us a sample of some of them as a gift, i doubt we will ever have a boss as good as him!
After saying goodnight i really felt the tiredness kick in again and back to the hotel for a much needed bed!
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