According to my daily countdown, I'm on day 6 of interning at Dongying. If only it were day 20. The work here is worse than being mediocre at best. I either waste my time gchatting & reading the NYTimes or I spend hours on google translate trying to translate dense legal documents into Chinese. Sometimes I fill out some simple applications about real estate firms. The latter would be a simple task if my Chinese were any good, but the supposedly mindless job of discovering a company's underwriter/CEO is pretty damn hard sometimes. If I were actually getting paid things would be much better. The promise of a paycheck by the end of the week would give me the strength to complete any job.
Every morning I wake up at exactly 7:08, get ready, take the 46X to the Wan Chai Exhibition & Convention Center, order a small iced latte at Pacific Coffee, and read the paper for 40 minutes. That's probably the highlight of my day right there.
I then proceed to go to my little beige cubicle & spend the next 7 or so hours sitting on my ass. My ass is probably growing as I type & the jalepeno cheddar cheetos I keep snacking on definitely don't help. What I don't understand is why I'm always hungry by 4 pm. Lunch, which is paid for by the company, is always a substantial bowl of rice & some vegetables/ meat. & given the fact that I don't really do anything to burn off the calories I should not be so hungry all the time. But right now I'm starving and I've already finished my cheetos.
I make sure to leave this lifeless soul sucking office by 6 pm on the dot. The remainder of my day is spent finding dinner. It can be quite difficult to find a good place to have dinner especially since my dorm is located in the middle of nowhere (I also refuse to eat at the canteen-it's just too gross). For the past two days I've had wonton noodle soup. Today I'm planning on going to Mong Kok, doing some shopping, getting some bubble tea, and then eating some street food (but probably in reverse order).
The end of my day has also become routine. I get home, blast the AC because it's so hot here, watch some Sex & the City, smoke some cigarettes & drink a beer, all while gchatting people.
So my weekday life can be summed up with: coffee, work, gchat, food, gchat.
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