My landlord is sucking. She never wants to fix anything so I had to call my real estate agent to talk to her. My agent is a really nice girl and told me to call her anytime if something like this happened. I think because I'm western and the landlord is not cooperating for this or other reasons, and our perspectives are just different. But she left a lot of her personal stuff here and I want it OUT. How hard is it to take it out or have someone take it out? Seriously. Get your crap and go.

Thats it for now. the sky here looks awful. Its either light brown or dark grey the past couple of days. I feel like I am in a greek tragedy the way it ominously looms over us lately.

The other night my electricity went out. In China, you have to go to the bank to pay for it, so it was about 6 o clock and the bank closed in an hour. So I had to run down there, pay for it (Only $9 for 3 months!) and then run back to the apartment and plug in this type of credit card that has your bank account and apartment number into the meter in the main hallway of my floor. But of course the landlord didn't give me the key to the door to enter all the meters so I had to wait for her to saunter over. I'm not trying to rant, but its just the flavor of life here the past couple of days. In other news, I did have an absolutely amazing massage at a "blind persons massage" place the other day with my new friend Anna. My masseuse wasn't blind at all but she was awesome. I think no trip to China is complete without this activity. And I'm all about paying $12 for an hour long massage that would cost at least $80 back home.

My fish keep on dying. It doesn't make sense, I clean the tank, give them air, only feed them once a week like I'm supposed to and I still end up flushing them down the toilet. It's quite depressing actually. If one dies, do they all start dying?