The past couple weeks have been stressful so the break in Beijing before leaving will be most welcome. Our paperwork to get our work/residency permits have taken longer than they should have (ahhhh Chinese bureaucracy); packing up the apartment is taking a while, we have more stuff than I thought we did; our new school should come pick us up tomorrow to help us take our stuff to our new apartment and they're ignoring our request in typical the Chinese "don't want to deal with conflict" passive-agressive way. The apartment needs to be inspected to make sure we didn't break anything while we were here and we're having a hard time getting someone to come & do it.Our apartment is in various states of disarry. I will be glad when the last bag is packed up and I can sweep the floors. Needless to say we've a lot going on.
These past 10 months have been a wonderful and nightmarish experiece, sometimes at the same time. It really hasn't sunk in that I'm leaving because we've so much going on. I think once I get to my parents' house it'll sink in that I'm no longer in China. Then, I've a feeling I'll be a little sad to be gone.
This will be my last post until I get to Mom & Dad's. See some of you very soon.
