Sunday, September 7, 2008

Monopoly Money


After spending the weekend in Shanghai I moved into my apartment in 鼓楼区三条巷 on Monday evening. My landlords are super nice and I got a pretty good deal on rent. The house is also close to campus, and clean. So far I have only seen one cockroach which is good for living in huge city. My air-conditioner just started raining again though. The money is to pay for five months of rent. In China people don't like to use checks so almost everything is done in cash. My rent for my two bedroom apartment came out to be 11,000 rnb with a 2,2oo rnb security deposit so I had to go to the ATM and pull out as much cash as I could the whole weekend that I spent in Shanghai. It was sort of scary and cool to literally have my pockets bursting with cash.





While I was running down the street to check out a house the previous day my pants ripped... now I have another pair of shorts.

1 comment:

Usagi said...

if I knew you were going to stay in NanJing, I could've totally hooked you up !!!! I mean apartment wise, i have friends over in Nanjing :P anyway, I hope everything is going well, seems like you are having fun, but the pants picture is kinda weird though, how did you even get that position ?