Well hello or should I say Ni men hao! Yeah I'm learning Chinese as it's a must to get around and by stuff like food in China. So I'm sitting in my
apartment (yes residential apartment not hotel room) in Beijing while the rest of the group is climbing the Great Wall. I am in Beijing, China but won't go
to the Great Wall or the Forbidden City... why? No money!
I found out =or I should say my boss gave me permission to go to the conference held in Wuhan, China on a Thursday at 6:30 pm when the flight was leaving at 6 am the following day (Friday). Now, I left lab/work around 7 to pack and get breakfast (had not slept in 3 full days because I had to write a manuscript for publication). Now this sucks because I've been in China without any money. The other people in my trip all have cash and can exchange but not me...
ATM? nope, my bank decided to cancel all my cards and send me new ones because someone stole the numbers from all the bank members or something like that. But somehow I never received new ATM debit cards. So I've been without a bank card for over a month and I need to withdraw money directly form the bank. I have a VISA but they won't let me do cash advance at the hotel or banks here. This is so stupid!
Sorry I needed to vent my frustration. I'm wasting my time here, without money so I can't even go out to lunch which will be around 20-50 CNY so close to 2-3 USD.
Regardless, here's my greetings from China to all of you at MoFo. I'll be home by Friday hopefully. Have a good day (or night).
I found out =or I should say my boss gave me permission to go to the conference held in Wuhan, China on a Thursday at 6:30 pm when the flight was leaving at 6 am the following day (Friday). Now, I left lab/work around 7 to pack and get breakfast (had not slept in 3 full days because I had to write a manuscript for publication). Now this sucks because I've been in China without any money. The other people in my trip all have cash and can exchange but not me...
ATM? nope, my bank decided to cancel all my cards and send me new ones because someone stole the numbers from all the bank members or something like that. But somehow I never received new ATM debit cards. So I've been without a bank card for over a month and I need to withdraw money directly form the bank. I have a VISA but they won't let me do cash advance at the hotel or banks here. This is so stupid!
Sorry I needed to vent my frustration. I'm wasting my time here, without money so I can't even go out to lunch which will be around 20-50 CNY so close to 2-3 USD.
Regardless, here's my greetings from China to all of you at MoFo. I'll be home by Friday hopefully. Have a good day (or night).
