Eric's Beijing Diary

Today Bulu and I went to the bank, because I had to do a cash transfer.  China is still very much a cash oriented society.  At first, I thought perhaps I could just figure it out myself, but when we were going through the process, and Bulu was filling out the form, he had to write the old, format Chinese character for each digit.  On one of the characters, he made a slight mistake, so the lady gave him a new form and had him do it over. 

Went to Milo's tonight with some friends from church.  I wanted to say goodbye, since I will be leaving for a few weeks.  And I also wanted to express my appreciation to the translators for the effort they put forward every Sunday.  I got into a conversation with Judy, one of the translators.  She and I both went to graduate school in Canada.  I asked her why she didn't stay.  She said,"Life in Canada was very peaceful...and very lonely."

 

Labels: Summer 2004