Still trying to gip me out of 1000RMB.
Did a bunch of things today. Had class in the morning. The last class thankfully. Chatted with Mountain and told him I made a mistake. "I need the taxi to pick me up Sunday morning at NORMATA, not the post office. I will be at Yumi's saturday nite. Not the big house."
I asked Katherine about my newspaper article, she said they lady was having it shipped and should be here today. Kool!
i didn't go to the gym today because I was a bit sore from an intensive practice from last nite and I wanted to get my final pay-out from Owen at 1140AM along with Peter. So i show up and Owen was late.
Around 12 he showed up and he went thru what each of us will receive. I looked at what I was to get, and I was like, "WTF! You are missing 1000RMB." I looked at it. The paper showed that I stop working on the 28th. They pro-rated my last 2 weeks pay as well as only trying to give me 5500RMB for my plane airfare. So, I called up Amanda and I was like, "I talked to you on the fone like 3 times and emailed you, you said my pay was fine." She called back and tried to explain why it was lower. She told Gary and Owen that I was to receive my money, but she didnt' bother to tell Emily or Gary about my hours and contract requirements. This communication bs really grates on you. I had to bust some heads to finally get what I was entitled to. If you don't speak up, you will be destroyed. And then the chinese accuse foreigners of being upstarts.
Then Owen took me and Peter to the Bank to get the cash. We were going as body guards because he would be takin out 27,000RMB. Peter and I both got about 13600RMB. Nice. We get to the bank, and the account that deals with this type of company, was gone and wouldn't be back until 2pm .Great!
Another wrench thrown into the plans. Owen would be able to get the money to either Peter or I until 7pm that day. And Peter needed it at 3pm to go buy some plane tix and his new computer. I just needed it. :D
So, i called John and asked if I could be late to class about 10 - 20 minutes, he said sure. We ran into Mark at the Maggot Pea cafe and had lunch. All the while I was waiting for a fone call from the messenger dude that is supposed to bring my Zhengzhou tix.
I got my money at 2pm and headed to class. I got there aroudn 220pm and the kids were working hard. I looked at the teacher's desk and there were 3 ice cold cans of beer. I was like, "what the hell is this", John was all like, a parent brought it in for us today. I was like damn! So during the second period, we popped open the cans. There was one for me, John, and Melina. Melina's sprayed her though when it opened. It exploded. I felt so bad. The kids laughed though. I apologized. Beer isn't viewed the same way in China as it is in the US. The dude at the bank yesterdya was drinking one while doing a transaction.
After class, John and I headed back here and I took all my DVD cases to Sheng Ya where I sold them back to them. While I was there, the messenger guy called me and he was directed to the store. I got my ticket around 530pm. I went to dinner for some noodles with John.
I came home and did alot more packing. Alot. And many other things. No practice tonite, not feeling good.
Well, goodnite all!