Eric's Beijing Diary

Last night when I got home, there was a note on my door from one of my neighbors. My neighbor said that he had some of my mail. Needless to say, I was very curious. This morning, I knocked on his door, and he handed me a whole bundle of mail dating back to last January. What happened was that when I gave my forwarding address to the Post Office in Tempe, they put in the name of the University, but not the name of the Software College. So my mail ended up with the Foreign Languages department, probably because they saw the foreign looking name and assumed that I was an English teacher. They just dumped it in someone's box, and it didn't get picked up until this guy (my neighbor) started this fall, and found it in his box.

Even stuff that is addressed to the Software College sometimes ends up taking a long time to get to me, because it sits on someone's desk for quite awhile before I get it. What I have finally come to is having everything sent to my home address, because I do live on campus, and there is only one place for them to put it if it is addressed to my apartment in the teacher's dormitory. Here it is, if you're interested:

Eric Langager
Building 114, Room 1404
Beihang University
37 Xueyuan Road
Haidian District
Beijing 100083 CHINA