Settling in

Day 10
You wanna know how I know that I have settled in? of course you want to know, why else would you be reading this! 1. I haven’t gotten sick from the food yet. 2. I haven’t gotten lost in the past few days. 3. I can start to calculate the prices of things in my head in terms of US dollars. 4. People at work will actually talk to me. And 5. I overslept.
I usually wake up around 6:30 in the morning to do my daily devotional and my morning routine. I use my Ipod as my alarm because of the different awesome alarm noises it makes. I personally prefer the noise titled: Strum. It is simply a high to low pitch made from the sound of a fake electronic acoustic guitar…it’s beautiful. I woke up around 4:40 by accident and immediately slammed my head back into my pillow to get some more sleep. Typically I will wake up at the most an hour or two later from when I first wake up and I was banking on this. I finally decide to get up because I felt like it was the right time (doesn’t that happen a lot). I looked at my clock: 7:58. At first I don’t believe what I see. I just stare at the clock, first with puzzled and dizzy eyes trying to decipher the numbers. I try to think of what time I start work. Is it 9 or is it 8. Am I late? Where am I? It finally hits me that I start work at 9 and I need to catch the 754 bus which arrives around 8. FWOOM! I rush outta bed. Brush my tooth put my clothes on and rush to catch the bus. I make it right when the bus pulls up to the stop. I actually get a seat on the bus and it feels like a good day. I check my watch and I calculate that I will in fact be early to work. Lately I’ve been getting these breakfast doughs every morning. They either have nothing inside, lettuce and vegetable concoctions, or some kind of dumpling meat. I got the best one. The one with the red bean (that’s for all you asian people that know what I’m talking about. The rest of you, just ask). Work actually moves quick and I’m actually kinda hyper today, it was probably the red bean because around 3pm, I start to hit the wall. I look at the clock and just see the minutes creep by. I start getting the head nod like I was at a rock concert. Terry shows and tells me some really cool places to go to in shanghai, and so those are definitely some posts to look out for. And so that’s how you know you have settled into a place, you oversleep.