Actually unlucky more for khai than for me.
But I was with her the whole day, so unlucky her means unlucky me!
The day started out with khai being cheated by this man outside school.
We were riding to school when khai got stopped by this man outside the school gate.
He said that khai’s bike needs some air pumping on the wheels.
So he dragged khai’s bike into the school to pump air for her.
But later he claimed that the tyre is spoiled and needs to be changed.
So he started dismantling the front tyre.
After he finished with the tyres, he quoted khai at a price of 60RMB!
That’s super daylight robbery!
Okay maybe after you convert it back to sing you may think that it is already quite cheap.
But now that we have been in china for quite some time, 60RMB is a huge sum of money!! 60RMB can feed us for almost a wk!
So khai started bargaining with him of cos and in the end settled at 40RMB (still ex though, but we are already late for school, no time for the hassle).
Took a cab to school.
Climbed up 5 stories of stairs just to find an empty classroom!
Called up the class monitor and he told us that class is cancelled today.
But we are freaking not informed!!!!
Aaarrrggghhh!!!
Wasted trip, wasted money!
Then we spent the whole day running arnd the school vicinity to find teachers to help us sign our course modules.
You see, in fudan, the administration is really super duper troublesome.
For us exchange students to take a course outside our own school, we have to get the department for which the course we are taking, to sign and authorize, then get our own school to approve, then hand up the form to the foreign student’s administration.
So you see, we have to run to 3 places just to fill up 1 form.
And there is no guarantee that the teacher in charge will be around. So we spent the whole afternoon running around from places to places back and forth waiting and waiting just to get everything signed.
Tiring.
But something positive.
The weather is getting better!
No more strong winds.
The sign of spring coming – flowers blooming in school!
