I so happy
I have a new job. I am so excited to have a new job. Something I care about. Something I still think about when I leave. Today was my first day… I spent the morning revising a brochure they had put together… I felt so useful and just delicious knowing that I was doing something that I was actually good at! It was fab. But then, after it was almost perfect, the power went out and the damn thing didn’t save. By the end of the day I realized that it might be a metaphor for me working there… I will feel helpful and useful and I could recreate most of the brochure from memory, but its going to be challenging, frustrating, because its China.
China has been frustrating me recently… just a lack of standards. I really needed coffee this Saturday, went to McDonald’s, the coffee machine was broken. Went to Scholtzkey’s deli for a sandwich… they ran out of sandwiches. I call this LACK OF STANDARDS and sometimes it gets to me. But its about time that something about this country got to me cuz I was previously living in some kind of la la land… so its cool, I’m still having a great time… but its good to realize that everything will not always be easy and happy and consistent.
So my new job is at Hui Ling Community Service for the Mentally Disabled we decided would be the proper English translation. This afternoon I met with the British Ambassador’s wife and her friend, who at some point mentioned that she lived at Legend Gardens, I said, well I lived there a while back.. what district were you in? one. One! Me too! What house? Ten. Ten? I lived in nine! How crazy is that? She says, do you know who owns your house now? Gong li. [very famous Chinese actress: http://www.askmen.com/women/actress_100/105_gong_li.html] So anyway, my job is to work in the development office.. I think I told y’all a bit about this before… anyway, I’m excited.
So I have completed my first role on stage… ok I was a minor stage hand, but still… It was really fun. In the beginning I was really nervous. I mean my only job was to move this table on and off stage, but I helped the costume designer prepare the clothes and other props… so it was such a new experience for me. So fun to hang out back stage while the orchestra warms up, hang out with the Soldier [the show was ‘A Soldier’s Tale’ by Stravinsky] before he went on… he told me his heart was pumping out of his chest… I was like, so is mine and I’m not even dancing! It was fun to hang out with the dancers… be part of Alison’s directorial debut It was amazing to watch her do everything all in Chinese… tell the dancers how to dance, tell the set guys how to do the set… her Chinese is real good.
It’s raining in Beijing. Traffic is murder when it rains. I still ride my bike, today I got very wet. I immediately showered to get the hepatitis off of me.
China has been frustrating me recently… just a lack of standards. I really needed coffee this Saturday, went to McDonald’s, the coffee machine was broken. Went to Scholtzkey’s deli for a sandwich… they ran out of sandwiches. I call this LACK OF STANDARDS and sometimes it gets to me. But its about time that something about this country got to me cuz I was previously living in some kind of la la land… so its cool, I’m still having a great time… but its good to realize that everything will not always be easy and happy and consistent.
So my new job is at Hui Ling Community Service for the Mentally Disabled we decided would be the proper English translation. This afternoon I met with the British Ambassador’s wife and her friend, who at some point mentioned that she lived at Legend Gardens, I said, well I lived there a while back.. what district were you in? one. One! Me too! What house? Ten. Ten? I lived in nine! How crazy is that? She says, do you know who owns your house now? Gong li. [very famous Chinese actress: http://www.askmen.com/women/actress_100/105_gong_li.html] So anyway, my job is to work in the development office.. I think I told y’all a bit about this before… anyway, I’m excited.
So I have completed my first role on stage… ok I was a minor stage hand, but still… It was really fun. In the beginning I was really nervous. I mean my only job was to move this table on and off stage, but I helped the costume designer prepare the clothes and other props… so it was such a new experience for me. So fun to hang out back stage while the orchestra warms up, hang out with the Soldier [the show was ‘A Soldier’s Tale’ by Stravinsky] before he went on… he told me his heart was pumping out of his chest… I was like, so is mine and I’m not even dancing! It was fun to hang out with the dancers… be part of Alison’s directorial debut It was amazing to watch her do everything all in Chinese… tell the dancers how to dance, tell the set guys how to do the set… her Chinese is real good.
It’s raining in Beijing. Traffic is murder when it rains. I still ride my bike, today I got very wet. I immediately showered to get the hepatitis off of me.
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