It is our 5th day back in Wuhan. We have settled in quite easily, with only slight jet lag. It was very nice to come back to the apartment and already have everything we needed (except food) but what was not so nice was the amount of dust and mould found around it. So we spent the first few days cleaning, grocery shopping and waiting for Danny’s luggage. Yes, that’s right, we were left staring at the carousel in disbelief once again. Our luck was slightly better this round in that we received two of our three bags, unfortunately the one we lost contained Danny’s clothes, food and a helmet. We know the bag was in China because we saw it in Beijing, but after that it could be anywhere. Danny is getting tired of rotating through the two pairs of underwear he had here but he has mostly gotten over the loss of the salmon that has surely gone bad by now. The helmet was going to be used for our new/terrifying scooter!
Danny decided we needed to buy a scooter after he was ripped off by one of the black cab drivers last year. Black cabs are essentially men who wait with their personal vehicles outside the school to take teachers places for about double the price of regular cabs. They can do this because the school is not in an area where it is easy to flag down a cab. He says he now feels a new sense of freedom, because he does not rely on them to go places. I have to admit the scooter is pretty cool however driving it anywhere but around the school is quite frightening.
Over the next week we are attending Pro-D work shops, getting to know the 20ish new teachers and planning for school to start next Monday.
