You remember that i did a medical test a couple of weeks ago? Well, i still had to pay my agent the money back and at last i had some money. This transfer of money had to be by bank as my agent is living in another city. "Well, how difficult can this be" i thought to myself? I arranged for my friend and translator, Victor to assist me to the bank in doing this transfer. As always everyone want to hang around the foreigner and i have become quite accustomed to this. So the knock on my door and around 4-5 Asian faces staring at me doesn't surprise me anymore. This day was no different than any other. Me and my 5 guides, translators, friends, assistants whatever you want to call them set off for the bank.
The previous day we tried to deposit the money at a branch of the same bank closer to where i live, only to find you cannot make any deposits there, only withdrawals. That should have been a warning sign if any!! On our way to the bank i select the leader of the pack to lead us. If i don't do this they all want to go different directions and i get confused. They all want to walk next to me, and i only have two sides, so it is a constant game of musical chairs around me. They are all good guys though and i really like them.
Entering the bank we are off to a good start. The tellers are all open. "This will be quick" says the voice in my head. Well, have i said anything about the bureaucracy? There are only red tape in this place! I have Chinese people asking me about Chinese names and the written Characters etc. Did i say yet that i don't speak, write or understand any Chinese? Mmm... I will just say that to deposit money in the bank on that day took me and 5 other Chinese guys 2hours. To make things even better, we had Chinese people translating for Chinese people. Sometimes i think these people don't really understand each other!
(Linfen, Shanxi Province, China)
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