080901 :: Arriving BJ

My flight / CA108 arrived BJ International Airport at 2pm...
The plane looks good, with Hagen daz ice cream served as desert. =D

Called Hoey when I got my luggage, but no one answered.
While I was still worrying about the phone card, I decided to go straight for a taxi with my 2 big luggages. The Taxi driver is quite nice, he introduced me on the Olympic Stadium during the ride. Arrived Tsinghua NE gate after half an hour, which Hoey has indeed called and noted that "I am arriving SOON"...

The drived stopped me at the International Student Dorm, #23, and I was LOST coz Hoey later told me that he had asked me to wait at the E Gate rather tan the NE... Anyway, after half an hour, I finally saw Hoey in a red car. He droved me back to E gate and bring me to a Motel near the Korean garden. Well... looks really like a Motel... though I was a bit shocked with the setting, we check in and settled my luggage, then run back to the Taiwan Macau HK Student Office to find Teacher Tung as for my dormitories issue.

Met up with Teacher Tung at that "Gung Ji Yuen" building, who looks really like a female farmer in the field. She is the one whom I sent email to, call as Mr Tung and replied me that she is "董女士"... Hoey asked me to start off the topic, and of coz I tried to fight for my room, which she told me that I have to wait till 18/19 Sept, which until all international students have got their room, then I can try to ask if any more can be given to me. Well... if I have to wait till late Sept, why do I have to show up here today? And indeed, she really "can't help". Anyway met up with a Taiwan guy who's also asking for a room here... and was rejected too by Teacher Tung. Hoey told me if I really cannot find a room, he can help me to rent a place to live in. Yet, the point is, that's really a very very worse case...

He drove me for phone card afterall, and also got me a map of the school... God, it's sooooooo big... After registering and activating my phone card, he drove me back to the Motel...

Well, then I have been thinking of askng my subject staff about my accomodation issue. So I called over and she's so nice of asking me to visit the dormitory and ask "right now"... And at the same time, the mobile sales called me, telling that my ID card was left at their shop. SHIT! HOW TO GET BACK THERE?

Anyway, I grab my luggage down and got onto a taxi. I tried to ask the driver to wait for me but then after I have found back my ID card, he's gone. I tried to find the way to the International Student Dorm, but there's no taxi... How to go there with my luggage? SHIT AGAIN! Finally I came over and asked a guy, who's sooooo nice and lead me to the main raod for taxi. He ever go with me for the ride, and told me that I neeed not pay for the taxi fee. WOW! He told me too that he has been studying in HKUST years ago...

Finally arrivd #19 of the International Student Dorm... and run straight to the reception counter. And as predicted, they said I am not eligible for a room there... After a long "fight" they told me that I can have a bed in a double room... and only if I can proof with my subject staff tomorrow that I am eligible for the application, they will consider to give me a single room, while that all single room is FULL!! That's ridiculous! So we fight again... and finally I was made into a AB room sharing the bathroom and pantry with a Korean girl... I paid the full amount with mom's credit card... erm...!!!

Finally got to my room and get the bed sheet fit onto the bed. Very tired already after the long fight, and go straight back to the motel afterall... Get onto internet, and shower, and Hoey called by... updated him my status, and he was kinda shocked... anyway, settled. That night slept NOT really WELL... Luckily, my sheep is with me... ><