Work is good. Basically I just sit around and check email and stuff and then once in awhile I get a document or power point or something to translate/revise for my boss. My boss is a partner in the firm specializing in Insurance and Anti-monopoly law. He's nice and so is my supervisor, a first year legal assistant (he just got his LL.M I think). Anyway, they all think I'm getting JD (which I think is because they saw PAD and KAPi on my resume...oops). Either way I like working in the big financial district -- the buildings are insane and you feel very modern and dare I say...capitalist walking through the area. Given that we live in a super super SUPER old part of town, its a nice change of pace. I work with a Korean boy -- he is 26 but a junior at Indiana Univ. b/c he spent a few years doing his military service. He is SO nice but pretty quiet. (When I told Byron that he was quiet, Lau just responded: "he's plotting". typical, no?)
Its technically the rainy season right now. But the weird/funny/kind-of-scary-
actually thing about it is that the government itself is making it rain. (I still laugh everytime I say that...China makes it rain, they make it rain, they make it rain on them hoes...) In order to get rid of some of the pollution as well as to cool the whole city off, they shoot chemicals into the sky during the late afternoon so that it rains every night. Sometimes it really works and there is blue sky the next day. Sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes it works WAY too well -- on the fourth of July half the city flooded and our taxi literally floated home. The next day though, the sky was the most beautiful blue ever and it was the perfect temp. Soooooo strange. I said to my boss "the govt actually controls the weather!" and he responded: "the govt controls everything!!" it was awesome.
I haven't met a Chinese husband. No Chinese people really like talking to me at all, actually, its a blow to the self esteem :). I hang out mainly with 4 other girls -- three of them are white so they get a TON of stares, and one of them is fully Japanese so Chinese people think she is Chinese and speak to her. Then when I tell them she doesn't speak Chinese (in Chinese) they give me weird looks and walk away. Its kind of depressing but oh well :)
Last weekend we went to Inner Mongolia as a big group -- it was awesome, but pretty tiresome. More about that later. One of the best parts though? We had to take an overnight train to and from and it was kind of rough on the old bones so my friends and I decided to get massages when we got back. I got a 60 minute massage plus all you can eat and all you can drink afterward for...wait for it...$23. I. love. China. Not to mention it was 10x better than any massage I have ever paid way too much money for at Douglas J. Im debating making it part of the weekly routine (especially since if you go before 5pm its only $12.)
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