Shanghai Bob

Got a 96 or better on all my exams, which I suppose shows they weren’t that hard.  Some students took them too seriously — I caught a glimpse of a classmate’s palm as we were discussing the grammar exam afterward:

Soon after exams were finished, I woke up to a flooded living room.  A pipe under the floor had burst and flooded my apartment and the downstairs neighbor’s.  It took three or four days to fix, during which I had no water in my apartment (I showered at the gym).  When the crew were finished, there was an inch-thick layer of concrete dust over everything in my place.  It took a week to clean completely.  I was glad I had done the intensive studying early.

The day after everything was finally patched and cleaned, I went out to get my hair cut.  When I got back, the lock was broken.  The key turned, but the deadbolt wouldn’t retract.  Four hours and $80 later I had a new deadbolt and three new keys.

This entry was posted on Friday, May 29th, 2009 at 10:33 am and is filed under chinese.