“I sold my soul to Rock n’ Roll” was the leitmotiv of my younger days, today it was: “I gave my blood for the House of Switzerland”. After a short night of sleep we met at the “Physical Examination Hall” for the official health test. It seems that very few people want to start the early morning with such a procedure, and therefore we did not have to wait and it took us hardly 15 minutes, an X-ray, some deep breaths and a bit of blood until we were all heading back for the HoS to start the first prep work.
After the health check, from left to right: Hakon (relieved), Manuel (bleeding, but happy), Fides and Julian (decided to smoke a last cigarette after a successful X-ray of their lungs).
While the morning at the HoS passed for the team very quickly with cleaning, planning, organizing,…, the author of these lines decided to take a tour through the Dashanzi 798 Art District. Everything here is buzzing with activities, and dozens of new cafés, galleries, and restaurants are competing with the HoS to be ready by the end of the month.
Healthy and tasty: The staff lunch prepared by the chefs from GammaCatering (with a little help from Fides and Hakon)
Our Friendly Neighbors at the Art Zone, part 1.
The mysteries of mobile phone prepaid tariffs in
In order to save money we all changed over to brand-new, Chinese mobile phone numbers, but ...you have also to know which helpline to call to avoid that incoming calls cost less then a weekly salary per minute, which pre-dial number to chose for Beijing to reduce the cost for outgoing calls by 50%, how to ask for a 50 RMB recharge at the kiosk, etc.
Emily and Cathy were extremely patient, and spend quite some time to explain, reprogram, reinstall, and switch SIM cards, call the operator,… and by the end of the afternoon the contact with he rest of he planet was reestablished for all of us. CK.
No Close-Ups, please! Emily and Cathy, between dish washing area and emergency Sim-Card rescuing.
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