Day five - dressed for succes

Yes! I have a new room! Yesterday someone from the international office called me... and today at 9 I went with Jane to the international students dormitory - where I moved in today. The room is much better. I have a window, an own toilette and shower and air con. So, quite a success. In the "hotel" I paid for 6 or seven days in advance, but maybe I can get the money back on Monday when the international office officially can announce my movement to the hotel. Everything seems to work quite bureaucratically here... Also my neighbor Sam from the "hotel" moved out and he is now my neighbor also here again. When we - or better Sam and Jane talked to the receptionist of the "hotel" we had to discuss with them for half an hour or more just to get an document that says that we moved out today - with that we hope to get the money back... we' ll see. It's kind of a Chinese manner just to interrupt and to break into conversations - so we always had to wait when there where other people coming. I didn't understand anything, but so what. Further on I bought some useful stuff for my new room which is for example a lock for my closed which does not fit after trying...
Today it was raining and after that even the sky was visible - how impressive ;-) It seems that the rain kind of cleaned the air. Temperature is still at 20-25°C though.
I also tried out to order at McDonald's today on my own - I got what I wanted but it was harder than I thought - and it was just one cheeseburger ;-) As they discovered that I cant speak any Chinese suddenly all workers behind the counter were called and I had to say and show (on a menu) again and again: "One cheeseburger" showing the pointing finger (which is the Chinese way to display "one") Finally they got it, and I my cheeseburger.

CU IN BEIJING

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