Yes. I listened to that Whitesnake song at work today. But, also, today was my first day working on my own. But, before that, this morning started out quite strange. I was supposed to Skype with Mom and Dad, but they were reckless and broke the webcam that I bought them for Christmas. So, they still had Skype and could see and hear me, but I could not see or hear them. Basically it was a 20 minute monologue and they would spur me on by asking questions via instant message…it was interesting but it was nice to kind of catch up with them. After that I got to watch as the Heat were dominated throughout the course of Game 6 of the NBA Finals. Even though they lost, I am still in the market for a knock off LeBron jersey while I am here in China. Today I had a few assignments to do for work and so I decided to go and do my work at Lush, since I do not have a true office. It was nice to just sit at a booth for most of the day and be productive and have someone bring me water and food. In my mind, I imagined the waiters were my assistants…it’s the little things that get you through the day. Anyway, my first two tasks were to email some information about my student assistants to Cara, Rich’s assistant, and to get information regarding the international summer programs at universities around Beijing. One of my next projects will be to plan a mixer between the various programs that will be sponsored by Lush and Pyro Pizza. My final task was a little tricky. I had to organize all of the data I collected last week onto a spreadsheet, calculate a bunch of numbers, and then put it all together with charts on a PowerPoint. The problem was that I am not proficient with Excel and I had no clue how to make graphs and charts with PowerPoint. It took a little while but I eventually figured it out. I am going to present it all to Rich tomorrow and (if I do say so myself) it all looks pretty good and professional. I finished work a little bit early and was able to head back to Global Village around 5:00 pm. I had needed to do laundry all weekend, so I went ahead and washed all of my clothes. China has great washing machines. They take about thirty minutes and even though they are small, they do a great job. The problem is with their drying machines. Simply put, they suck. It takes only 1 Yuan to use the dryer for 10 or 20 minutes (depending which machine you use) but they take about 2 hours to dry a load of clothes. Also, some machines only allow you to put in one coin at once, so you have to go back every 10 minutes. It took so long to wash clothes because of the slow drying process that I had to order dinner and stay in just to finish the laundry before it was time to go to bed. But, now I have two weeks worth of clean clothes and I have a great entrepreneurial business idea (importing decent dryers into China and selling them at huge mark ups).
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