I told you that, at this stage, we were getting so good at these goodbye’s that we might as well stop crying. We might as well be off with it, but we couldn’t stop it. We were in tears again. Again, we were off to another location, leaving someone behind.
We now had managed to find a job, but this one is in Zhejiang province. But you know how it goes, we had to get some paperwork in order. We arranged to pick up our papers in Bangkok, and I made a reservation at a hostel, and an international courier sent the documents there.
We arrived on the day it was supposed to come, but this place was shady! The documents were delayed.
The bed was hard. It stank, it was small, it was hectic! It was so stressful knowing we had to fly back now, get VISAS, and what would we do if we didn’t get visas in time? We were broke! What would we do?
We found an Indian restaurant across the road. We ate there twice a day because it was good food and it was all we could afford. The documents came eventually! We went to the VISA center, applied, and hoped for the best! Four days of waiting, and we could get the visas! We decided that we would not book the flights yet because we had nothing to fall back on and changing flights was a silly waste of money. We were just going to figure life out step by step!
We got the VISAS four days later. All that we could do for those four days was walk to the Indian shop, worry, stress, eat junk, and try and sleep, but that was also a mess! How we survived, only our guardian angels can say!
Now there were a series of actions that came in to play! We had to get the last clothes from the dry cleaners, we had to have dinner, we still had to collect our passports, and we had to breathe! But there was no time to breathe. We got our passports, and then we rushed to the travel agency that was closing in forty minutes. We got flights for early the following day! We had to sleep for a few hours, and then we rushed again!
We checked out at the crack of dawn, walked down the dirty alley, got a cab, and went to the airport!
We got through security. We landed in Shanghai and took the bullet train. We still were holding our breath. We were now just trying to find the people to take us to the hotel!
We got to the hotel, checked in, unsure what we ate or what we did for dinner, but the next day we were collected and taken to our apartment. It was barely big enough to shuffle past the bed on either side, and it wasn’t charming!
The aircon didn’t work. The bed was a rock. The bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom were all in one tiny room, and it was dirty!
It was disgusting!
We went to the company and met the manager, and he was acting like a fundamental tool, so we started to make our move, get another job, get another option, get something better!
The following day we were off to Hangzhou. We were flying the next day to a tropical paradise!