Summer in Canada 03
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Back in Shanghai and having a hard time settling down.
That probably has a lot to do with the fact that I’m homeless at the moment. My good pal Sofia, thankfully, has given me a place to stay throughout this apartment-searching debacle. I’ve been back for a little over a week and have slept in four different places — my friend Martha’s, then Sofia’s, followed by my ‘new apartment’, and then my cousin Debbie’s hotel after I was terrified about going back to the apartment I had just signed a one-year lease for.
I moved in and out within five days. There were bugs, the bed was a box of rocks, and I was met with a pile of garbage in front of my ‘lao fangzi’ (old apartment) every time I walked outside. I only slept there one night and never wanted to go back.
I’ve been missing home a little bit. Post-Canada blues, I supposed. Wishing that I could be spending time with my good ol’ Oakville friends again (some of whom are in the photo above because I can only blog through flickr now) and dim suming with my parents, Jasmine and Grandma. I’m also missing the excitement of last month when I was at the Olympics in Beijing, and wishing that I was still living in the Fudan dorm with my best friends Jeff and Dave like last semester.
Lots to adjust to this time around.
