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I Found A Place to Live

I wanted to house hunt yesterday but I ended up spending all my time at work. After working on my prep work I helped Mr. PL Chau finish some more work. He offered me a position as one of the Project Operators. But really it is just a secretary for the senior staff. I think Carmen (one of them) works as a "Project Operator". The pay scale is very low for the expected work. There is some project and marketing work but it also involves a lot of typing of forms and memos.

Raymond's girlfriend's birthday is coming up. Raymond asked me to take his morning class Saturday at a primary school out in the New Territories (Lei Muk Shu Catholic Primary School). This means my coming Saturday will be crazy, teaching from 9am to 10pm at night. Though interestingly enough last week a girl almost walked into the male washroom at SME. Apparently she was goofing around with some other students but I happen to be walking out. Well as they were passing by on their way out they threw me a nice compliment. It is always nice for the ego.

Today was typical teaching day. I had teppanyaki for lunch with some of my students. The teppanyaki really wasn't great. One of the students wants me to tutor their child at about $200/hr but the location is far south on Hong Kong island. I don't know if it will be worth it since the travel time will be long.

Joyce helped me after work to find a place to live. I wanted to find something close to work and I ended up in Mong Kok. I know the area isn't exactly great. I ended up finding a nice place that was recently rennovated. The problem is there is no lift, and it is on the 3rd floor. I put up $2000 HKD down for the deposit already. I close up the deal next week. But after I told Ada and Gloria I found out the place was really seedy. I kind of knew it because it is close to Shanghai Street, where there are a lot of "yellow signs". Well, I don't have much of a choice but I can adapt. The rent is slightly cheaper at $2400 HKD per month.

posted by Tempest7 @ 11:00