I spent the better part of my day today getting this;
This is my “Certificate of Health Examination for International Traveller”
It all started with a phone call on Monday saying that I had to have my “Health Exam” done before the University could move forward with preparing the documents I need to process our family’s work visas for China.
This is important, and time is of the essence, so I moved on it immediately. As I was sorting out the details, it turned out Erica needed to get this “Health Exam” too. She was not thrilled.
One of the reasons this was ‘inconvenient’ for us is that we couldn’t get this exam done in the city we lived. We had to go to Changsha, the provincial capital that is about 2 hours away. Thankfully, we have some friends in town who could watch the kids for us (bringing them on this trip would have been quite the ordeal!)
We left at 7:30am and returned home around 5:45pm - with our certificates in hand. Whew!
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I am traumatized! But I will recover!
Parts of our day away were fun! Like the nice cup of coffee, the subway sandwich, and shopping at the imported goods store!
I’m just glad the kids didn’t have to have all the health exams!
Must have been nice to have a day alone together though.
That part of it was nice… you just have to block out the part of having a physical in a dirty, no VERY, VERY dirty, clinic with no AC and no real air movement at all, in a culture that does not value privacy, and where watching two white skinned Americans get a series of medical tests and procedures is great entertainment for all present! If you forget about that, it was fantastic!
That Subway “Italian BMT” I had was perfect! The Latte from Haggen-Das was not bad (it wasn’t Starbucks, but it was better than any of the local coffee shops!) Being able to pick up some ‘imported’ groceries for Erica was also very nice.
Not to completely disregard the trauma, but I do think it is funny you can get an Italian style sub from an American restaurant in China.
Subway opened up just under two years ago here in Hunan. It’s awesome! (and it’s far enough away that it’s not a day-to-day temptation - just a treat every now and then!)