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Monthly Archives: August 2006

My Chinese Name

Thursday, August 31, 2006

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欢迎关林来！Well, the people here are a little more insistent than the Dalian ones about having a Chinese name. However, the name I “ended” up with is basically the same as my first name of “Stephan”
So, my Chinese name is ??? shi3di4fen1 My name li4shi3 de shi3 (history); huang2di4 de [...]

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Another new room, new roommate

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Yesterday, I was moved again. This time to a cheaper room, without air conditioning, and with a smaller bathroom, and really smaller closets. They are about 10 inches deep and about 20 inches wide.
The better news is that these rooms are set up for students, so they have study hutches instead of hotel room desks. [...]

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Life was good… for a day or so.

Thursday, August 31, 2006

After getting internet in my room, life was good for about a day. that day, about 8 people arranged to go out for dinner last night at 6:00pm. When 6:00 arrived, a few more people had been invited, so there were 12 of us all getting on a bus to a restaurant that someone knew [...]

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Getting a new visa, vegetarian restaurant

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Yesterday, I went along with many other students to get a new Visa. They took us to a special hospital specifically designated for examining foreigners. Apparently there’s only one such place in each province, so it was good that the University was handling the whole affair. They had modern electronic records for everything, ?with electronic [...]

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Moving in, buying the room?

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

After putting my things in the room, the floor manager showed up to have me sign an inventory of the entire room, with prices. Some of the items are very expensive!. So, I asked to be shown every item before I would sign it. This actually seemed to please her, and she was very happy [...]

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