So, in order to go to China for a year and live and study, they require that you have a visa. Ugh. Why can't I be going to the EU?
Anyways, for this student visa, I have to pay £30, and take myself along with an application form and an admission notice from the university to an embassy in either Edinburgh, Manchester or London. If you are American, it costs £30 also ($60?). If you are of ANY OTHER nationality, it costs £20 (or equivalent). Huh.
Problem with that? I don't HAVE an admission notice, so I can't apply for my visa. In fact, I have no idea when I -will- have an admission notice.
But at least I have a phone I can use in China. In Newcastle, there's a little known shop in Newcastle where you can take your phone, and for a very small fee, they will add Chinese to your phone. Only what they don't tell you is that they simply replace ALL the software on the phone to that which is on a Chinese version of the same phone, so my icons are now different, and the buttons work differently. But I can text in Chinese! And my phone is unlocked! All for the bargainous price of fifteen english pounds. Although texting in Chinese is not like typing in Chinese. To those who know how to type Chinese using pinyin - it's like that, but with predictive text, and you obviously can't use numbers for tone or whatever to narrow down the options.
Today's Fearometer Rating: 8 (on account of moving out tomorrow)
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I'm fearing... We can't move out! Then We won't live together any more, no more spontaneous pizza sessions, no more dodgy TV together, no more conversations so crude they'd make a whore blush. Think I'm gonna cry...
You make us sound so CRUDE. I mean, we are, but you shouldn't let on!
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