So I have been back in the good old US of A for just about a month now and I have to say I don’t remember it being this damn boring. My life is filled with greeting relatives that I haven’t seen in … well actually I don’t remember seeing most of them, hearing about people’s lives for the last 5 years and suffering from culture shock.
Aside from the annoyances of returning home triumphantly after 5 years, and hearing people say I got fat. (screw you I am not fat I am fit) I have the weekly visit to the hospital to continue my physical therapy from my traffic accident earlier this year. I did make a posting about it but one lawyer lead to judge that made me remove them. That’s the great thing about Taiwanese legal systems they are great for the Taiwanese but not always so great for Americans nor for common sense.
Any the short and long of it was, I was out of town to visit a friend when a gnarly BMW driver attempted to run a red light and cut off a whole line off traffic over corrected his steering crossed the road and ran into me (a poor defenseless scooter rider) throwing me from my bike sending sliding across the ground only to have the scooter land on my hip pinning me in a weird and burning position. Remember kiddies scooters are hot especially when their exhaust pipe comes to rest on your legs. Anyway after 3 rounds of legal negotiations the case was herd before a judge who said what I had been claiming all along that the man was guilty and should pay for my medical fees. Well that didn’t happen he paid the mandatory upfront money and skipped town with the rest of the loot. So ever since early March I have been in and out of court, and in and out of the hospital for this test and that along with the physical therapy to help me to recover from something. Not really sure on the why, the Taiwanese doctor had excellent English, but his annunciation wasn’t great so he slurred his words together.
So now that I am back in the US I am still going through the therapy at a local place, and have visited a 2 local doctors first a general doc. who referred me to a specialist, who told me that I have a dehydrating hip joint and that the best option would be surgery. However, a poor international school teacher can’t afford this surgery in US. Practically used up all of my 5 years savings so far on the several medical tests and therapy sessions, which since my Taiwanese medical insurance doesn’t reach into the US is all out of the pocket costs.
Enough of my ranting about not having money, and more ranting about not having money.
Next month on December 30th I am going to move to Guangzhou-city, Guangdong Providence of the PRC. Which should start a new chapter in my life, I hope a good one. The only problem is that because of the medical bills and the costs of moving back to the US I am extremely low on funds now. So I am trying to come up with ways to earn money before Dec. 30th. I wish I had planned better earlier this year. My main idea is to sell off the few remaining items that I have from my days in Taiwan, namely my Halo Limited Edition Xbox with a some games, DVD collection, Japanese study books, I studied Japanese for several years before coming to Taiwan and studied a little while in Taiwan. I have a DVD Recorder (kind of like a VCR but it uses DVDRs or DVD RAM disc for repeated recording.) I have a 93 Ford Tempo that is in really good condition for being almost 20 years old, I have some manga books that I collected while in college about 45 of them.
I am not trying to make fortune off this stuff just trying to earn around $3000 USD so that I will be able to afford to live in China for the first 3-6months. That’s all I took to Taiwan and I survived for 5 years, so I should be able to do the same thing with China.
Ok that's my post for today. I will write more about going to China the things I am trying to sell and try a new style blog next time.
I am Chububobcat and this has been my random thought for the day. Happy Holiday’s ya’ll ha ha.
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