smee82
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I had to go to Beijin today to renew my passport as it will expire soon. the trip there wasn't to bad it only takes about 30 min by the speed train. I then spent about 3 hrs in the embassy waiting for my turn to be served, turns out 9 am is not early enough to miss the long lines to be told my photos are 1mm to small.
So I go to a photo studio to get some new photos taken and they want to charge me 300yuan for the photos while right behind her there is a sign with the prices, 50 yuan. It was in chinese so she most likely thought I was another foreigner in China she could cheat but I am fluent. so after arguing with her for 20min in chinese because she can not just admit she lied otherwise she loses face her excuse for saying 300 was she thought I wanted some special photos of some sort and she agrees to 50.
Me being clever I decide to skip lunch and go straight back to the embassy and wait there till it opens after the lunch break which was lucky because just before they served me I was first about 50 chinese in a tour group walked in to get visas.
Be stupid I thought my luck had changed after leaving the embassy and going back to the train station but I forgot you need ID to buy a ticket and I don't have any anymore. so instead of taking ten min it took about an hour. Then when the train came I needed to show them my ID again so they tried to get me to leave the line but I wouldnt so everyone behind me was getting angry at me because I know if I leave I will not get on the train.
After all that I finally get home to my land lady waiting at my door, thankfully she doesn't have keys, to tell me she wants me to move out tonight. when I tell her we agreed on sunday she gets very angry telling me how I'm taking advantage of her and I'm supposed to give her a months notice but I only gave her a week and so she won't give me my deposit back and she will call the police and have me evicted. I told her to go ahead because its not true, I told her 9 months ago if she didnt fix the heating come winter I would move out, she didnt and I will. So now I get to look forward to another big argument tomorrow when she tries to get me to leave and one on sunday when I get my deposit back.
Sorry for the long post but my fiancee works a double shift at the hospital tonight and I really need to vent.
So I go to a photo studio to get some new photos taken and they want to charge me 300yuan for the photos while right behind her there is a sign with the prices, 50 yuan. It was in chinese so she most likely thought I was another foreigner in China she could cheat but I am fluent. so after arguing with her for 20min in chinese because she can not just admit she lied otherwise she loses face her excuse for saying 300 was she thought I wanted some special photos of some sort and she agrees to 50.
Me being clever I decide to skip lunch and go straight back to the embassy and wait there till it opens after the lunch break which was lucky because just before they served me I was first about 50 chinese in a tour group walked in to get visas.
Be stupid I thought my luck had changed after leaving the embassy and going back to the train station but I forgot you need ID to buy a ticket and I don't have any anymore. so instead of taking ten min it took about an hour. Then when the train came I needed to show them my ID again so they tried to get me to leave the line but I wouldnt so everyone behind me was getting angry at me because I know if I leave I will not get on the train.
After all that I finally get home to my land lady waiting at my door, thankfully she doesn't have keys, to tell me she wants me to move out tonight. when I tell her we agreed on sunday she gets very angry telling me how I'm taking advantage of her and I'm supposed to give her a months notice but I only gave her a week and so she won't give me my deposit back and she will call the police and have me evicted. I told her to go ahead because its not true, I told her 9 months ago if she didnt fix the heating come winter I would move out, she didnt and I will. So now I get to look forward to another big argument tomorrow when she tries to get me to leave and one on sunday when I get my deposit back.
Sorry for the long post but my fiancee works a double shift at the hospital tonight and I really need to vent.