One Week

That's all that is left. I cannot really say that I am ready to go. It is always hard to leave a place when you don't know when you are coming back. Especially when that place is far away. I am sure I will have similar feelings when it is time to leave Michigan and move to New York. I have never lived in a different state, and somehow it seems as foreign as another country.... and given how close it is to Canada, perhaps it almost is...

I ran into Peter today, and he was surprised to see me. It seems most FTs who are not coming back did not stick around either. I heard from him that the contracts at ECNU changed and FTs are not getting paid over the summer nor are they getting their flight tickets reimbursed. I think that is pretty crappy. It makes me even more sure I would not have wanted to stay. Today, I also got an e-mail from Hannan that I was right that my contract did not end until July 10th, so I get paid 1/3 more of my monthly salary for July! Woo Hoo!

Today, we turned over the apartment to our landlord and we got back the entire deposit except the current utility bills. Not to shabby in my opinion. 

Tomorrow, I am off to Nanjing to do IELTS. I will be taking the super fast train that is supposed to take 70 min. The first time we went I recall about 5 hours on the train. 

Friday, I will tutor Eun Jeong's kid one last time and I will go pick up our passports from the visa office (we had to get an extension).

Saturday, I do IELTS, and we will go to the Xinjiang Place in Minhang for a going away party with friends. But the reality is there are not so many friends left. 

Sunday, I do IELTS again. 

Monday, I do IELTS writing, and I want to go get a few new pairs of glasses because they are much cheaper here. 

Tuesday, I have nothing.

Wednesday, we leave. 

Yingna will take off the next week. I actually wish I got to be at her place and just relaxing with the family for a while. Of course I plan to make a nice pile of money in the next week, and I will appreciate it when I go back, but now it seems not to be the most important thing. 

There are still quite a few things that I would like to do, and I am quite certain I will not have time to do them all. It was a great idea for Meng and I to get away for a few days and enjoy each other's company in China, as I do not know when we will get a chance to do that again.