06 July 2007

Great Jobs To Be Found In China!

Hey everyone!

I thought I'd share with you some of the more fabulous jobs to be found in China.

Fuwuyuan, Friendship Store
Duties: Being rude to customers; preventing customers from searching the shelves for the things which they need
Perqs: On-the-job nose-picking

Fuwuyuan, BLCU's Conference Centre's Restaurant
Duties: Being rude to customers; giving among the poorest service in the Greater Beijing Area; opening automatic doors for customers
Perqs: On-the-job nose-picking

Door-opener, Library
Duties: Passing students without library cards through the turnstiles when the automatic doors are abitrarily and mysteriously closed
Perqs: Mafaning students simply because they haven't yet gotten their student cards and can't speak Chinese, while allowing hassle-free entry to any native speaker of Mandarin, regardless of whether or not they're affiliated with BLCU; on-the-job nose-picking

04 July 2007

'The Crying Baby Gets Milk'

Hello, everyone!

I've finally convinced the head fuwuyuan at my dormitory to allow me to stay for the last six days of my programme. I think that she finally understands that my programme is quite different from the short-term programme offered at BLCU. I don't want to go into too many details about this; however, my situation is quite different from that of the short-term programme. I think that she thought that my sense of entitlement was too high until I explained that the short-term programme's exam results shall be available either tomorrow or on Friday, whereas mine shan't be available until 20 July. I am booked here until 21 July. Only six weeks of complaining were required for that. I think that that's a record in China.

Although I have complained much, I have tried to resist the urge to yell and whine while complaining. However, one of the advisors for international students told me that I need to do that if I want to stay at all. I was prepared to do that but, in the end, I ended-up being quite Canadian. I didn't whine to the person who could possibly do something about it; I whined only to those who couldn't.