This summer I have been relatively unconcerned about upcoming move to China starting this September. I’ll be studying at Hunan Normal University for an academic year, hopefully getting pretty good at Mandarin and working on some photo/multimedia projects.
But now I am pretty nervous. I just got my visa back from the Chinese Embassy. Not only is visa for the wrong dates, my birthday is wrong. It reads September 6th instead of 5th (I promise I did not mess that up on the application).
I’ve been told to extend my visa when I’m in China, and am trying to get my birthday fixed.
I also got an email this week from Hunan Normal University, saying, “oops, hope you haven’t bought your plane ticket because we changed the academic calendar to 2 weeks later.”
So, I am getting very nervous about my trip. Not about the whole being alone in a strange country part, but the part where I can’t finish the year because they deny my visa part, or that the university forgot to tell me they couldn’t get housing for me, or something.
I guess I have got to go with the flow. I’m pretty laid back.
One month till Changsha….
-ab