Still no info re my teaching responsibilities, nor even any contact from the English department. Luckily I was prepared for this, so will wait Zen-like for my orders:-) Today I went downtown to get the mandatory physical exam required to get resident work visa. A special assembly venue and assembly line for foreigners, though I only saw a handful who weren't Asian and speaking Chinese. A mystery that my handler, Christina, couldn't explain. (Nor, by the way, could she explain those curious pink and blue packs containing a small bulbous device that I found for purchase in my hotel room when I showed them to her. "For sex, maybe?" We needed a graphic to close the gap between imagination and
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