to a cat, a warm dry place to sleep and perform daily tasks is without a doubt mandatory. So can you visualise my delight when i found an apartment within only 2 hours or less of searching.
It's only a room teacher tina translated from chinese to english for me. I can live in just a room, i thought. I've done it before i'm from London just a room is doable. There's no kitchen tina said.
and there it was. hmm I'll see it I said. Soon after i learnt that kitchens are not necessity here.
4pm sharp came, and my manager approached me and said shall we go and view it? I of course said yes, big smile on my face but trying hard to remain professional and not resemble a child who'd been told we're going to get ice cream.
Now how many of you can say you rode on the back of your managers scooter the first day you met them?
Well i can. I was asked if i wanted to drive my own and honestly I was about to say yes. I have said before in my life I will do things when i've never done them before and definitely didn't feel comfortable doing it. But i decided i like my health and safety and i want to do things the right way and learn before doing. Plus, in taiwan they drive on the opposite side of the road, need i say more.
So i hopped on, feeling awkward a little and my manager zoomed off in direction of the apartment. I don't know if the speed limit was legal but i was scared.
Just a room they said. JUST A ROOM. they forget to mention the panoramic window that took up an entire wall, the brand new flat screen television installed for my use, the biggest refrigerator I have ever owned, a great bed for rolling around in, closet that for fits all my clothes but i will fix that and a modest cute bathroom.
I'll take it. No questions asked. Chinese was exchanged, contract signed and voila. That's where i am right now. although i am without pillows, sheets, and a blanket which taiwan ikea will take a role in
so for now, no pictures but a before and after will be up just give me a month to find my paws.
The amenity i was most excited about at that time was the internet. When you are in a new country, and don't speak the language you value the importance of the internet. I went 4 days without it, and i felt almost cut off from the rest of my family and the world. I couldn't understand the news, I couldn't talk to my boyfriend, I couldn't call my sister and by then i'd missed two episodes of project runway and my fuse was running short. I jumped from hot spot to hot spot. and became irritated and not being able to communicate with back home.
I realised, the internet in it's essence is a tool not to be taken for granted. I once used to despise how much people would broadcast on the internet and did not enjoy that lives were so publicly displayed. But away from social media, is a man made tool that we now rely on. It is sometimes the cause and the cure of human destruction.
That post is for another day, as all is right and harmony has been restored.
I have the internet back, and i can go back to researching relevant things in life. Like, does chocolate milk make you fat? and what is the chinese symbol for body cream.
till next time,
signed allie
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