Today the Chinese Embassy finally took our visa applications, yeah!!!!! That happened after my husband’s countless phone calls made to China, but the way how he did it, is only known to me and himself. Committee members in IDs club launched the news today in the internal correspondence and appreciated his effort that had made in helping club members to get their visa applications through. They said “without him, they won’t even be close to today’s stage”.

However, we know that it’s not only about the effort he made, it’s far more than that. You have to have the understanding about culture. Language and public relation skills are also essential to success of this matter. Now as far as I know, he even got Embassy people all interested in dragon boating and today when coach and club president was there for visa application, they even talked about organising an event for all Embassy staff to try out dragon boating on the lake. Goodness me, what did you tell them, hubby?

Me, as a family member of one of paddlers, given an official title of “Manager”, is going to go with the ID team. Apart from giving some help on breaking through language barriers and other little chaos, the head of this manager is full of completely irrelevant ideas, such as how to get my hair cut in China

With only 2 weeks time left, the excitement gets bigger and bigger. I am surpringly not up to the stage of starting packing this time, but I will get on to it very soon, probably this weekend. And this time we will have live-in friend helps to look after the place, so I don’t have to worry about eating up all the food in refridgerator or other things.

I realised that I have been counting the weeks since we decided to go back, but from now on, I think I have to begin to count the days Just can’t wait~~~ Photo is Chinese Embassy in Canberra.