迷失的老美

I spend a few minutes on some expat boards from time to time looking for part time work that is both easy and pays well. I send off some SMSs and messages and see what they have to offer me.

I did this a few days ago and landed some temp work over at NOS in a different department. I spent from 1-5:30 today recording 3 hours of English words with example sentences for them. I still have another 3 hours or so to go through the rest tomorrow, and I might be able to turn this into something more regular because their sentences SUCK. The pay? 300 per hour of recording. Not bad at all really, I just earned the fare for our tickets to Xichang today.

Speaking of Xichang, someone had a big mouth and now everyone knows, I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing now ;_;

So, I just heard that they are making foreigners in this dorm move out on the 13th into building 7 for some reason. Why? I have no idea, but they have been renovating this building all year long and now that it’s finally half-way decent they are kicking us out. Cute. I’m going to beg them to let me keep my stuff here till I get back from Xichang so I just have to move once. Cute, really fucking cute.

It has been a long year with too much weird drama, so here is a summary.

January: Ran back to Beijing because I needed a break from Japan.
February: Still in Beijing, Spring festival taught me how dead this city can be.
March: Still in Beijing until running back to Japan for school. Applied to Beiwai
April, May, June, July: Drama in Japan with school, got my acceptance letter to Beiwai in April. Went to Okinawa with Yanying, Zhangxia, and Houlili. Started posting on the Beiwai BBS and met Sophie.
August: Ran back to Beijing to drop stuff off before going back to the US. The US is weird and I never did readjust in the 3 weeks I was there. Went to LA to see Brian before running away again to Beijing
September: Started school, spent time getting settled in, went to Harbin. Started working at NOS.
October: Met Sophie for the first time and started going out with her. Started working at Sun North.
November: Spending time with Sophie, had thanksgiving at Nina’s with Sophie. Met up with Pete again.
December: Got sick, quit Sun North, lost my passport, had my first fight with Sophie. Spent Christmas with Sophie, managed to somehow get into a fight again and learned some things that I wish she had let me know about before so I could have been more sensative to them. Fight was resolved though Started making plans for Spring Festival.

All in all, it’s been a short, long, drama-filled year that has been both the worst and best ever. The year started getting much better after meeting Sophie, despite the emotional rollercoaster she can put me on at times, she is my rock, she is something in this world that I can focus on when things are not so good, she makes me happy and holds my hand while I further adjust to life here. I don’t know what our future together may hold, but I know that as long as I am with her, I am happier than I have ever been in my life. I can see in her eyes that I make her happy and that makes me even happier. What gives me faith in this is that I did not go out looking for a girlfriend at the time, it just happened and the last 3 months have been filled with a dreamlike ecstacy for me. Guys are suppossed to have a fear of commitment, but I look at her face and imagine a lifetime together and I am not afraid. I have never had this feeling before and it gives me confidence in everything I do.

Goodbye 2005, you have been good to me.
Hello 2006, I think that you will be even better