Adam’s Not Here

I picked up the keys for my new place this evening and I’ll be moving in tomorrow. It’s a two-bedroom place that I’ll be sharing with a Chinese girl who works as a legal consultant for an American law firm. She’s quite friendly and when she is not at work is usually studying for the Chinese equivalent of the Bar exam. Hopefully her studious nature will inspire me to really get cracking on my research. Her English is quite excellent, which is unfortunate in a way, as I am sure that will be the language we will converse in. Maybe I can get her to use Chinese with me, although she’ll have to be patient enough to repeat everything slowly and at least 10 times….

It’s exciting to be moving into a new area. It’s still downtown, but in an area that I am not as familiar with. It’s in Jing’an district, which is a little more upscale than where I am now. There are a fair bit of foreigners in the general area, but it’s more working folk and less tourists. It will be fun to get out and explore the streets, hopefully I’ll be able to find some nice restaurants.

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I took the bus to get home after picking up the key to the new place. I found and empty seat near the rear door and sat down. When I sat down I noticed a few people looking at me, and two girls in particular were really looking me over. You don’t have to be here for too long for your ego to get inflated, so I just figured they were checking me out and didn’t think much of it. After about 5 minutes, with just a few blocks to go until my stop, a girl leaned over to me as she walked up to the front of the bus. “Excuse me…. Be careful….,” she said as she pointed to the window beside me. Rice was splattered all over the window, and all around the bars and floor around and behind my seat. I couldn’t tell if someone had thrown up or just spilled a container of rice. Either way it wasn’t pretty. The bus was pretty dark so I hadn’t even noticed, which was weird considering how obvious it was after it was pointed out to me. I guess I am turning a little Chinese or something - don’t want to lose face - since I continued sitting in the seat until we got to my stop. Although, I guess it’s pretty hard to salvage any face from that situation. Oh well, I had to do laundry anyway.

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