Day 156-160 – Beijing

I found out my Visa Check Card from (now out of business) Netbank is being turned off tomorrow. This is the only way I can get to my money, so I need to get a new ATM card. In the middle of the night I opened up an account at ING Direct. I had to make a call to the USA to confirm some details before they would open my account at 2AM. I’m hoping someone can mail me the card from the new bank account. In the mean time I’m trying to guess how much money I’ll need in the next few weeks here and I’m taking it out before the card gets stopped.

My web host increased the limits quite a bit. From 10GB of space to 250GB. Also the data transfer limit was also upped to 250GB per month. Also a limit of a few databases to now unlimited databases. I don’t have to worry about running out of space now when I backup all my photos.

In class one day, my Chinese teacher was talking about how she appeared on two TV game shows. One was a quiz show and the other was The Price is Right. She won a lot of things like trips out of the country, phones, TV, couches. There’s also a video online of her (she starts appearing after 20 minutes).