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I’m not usually one to comment on examples of poor English. Not being able to speak any dialect of Chinese, I don’t usually thinks it fair to pick on a non-native speaker’s English ability. But this sign giving emergency instructions in my hotel room was just too good to pass up. It’s a good thing it comes with a map otherwise I would have no idea what the meaning is. Especially the last point, “Point profess your excellency seat.” I have no clue what they wanted to say. For a 5-star hotel I am little disappointed the hotel management couldn’t bother to spend a couple of extra bucks to have a native speaker (or even a person with a couple of years English instruction) check this. Any ideas?

I moved out of my apartment this afternoon and into my home for the next couple of nights, the HongQiao State Guest House. The check out of the apartment went smoothly enough but getting everything out was, as usual, a big pain. As always I ended up with more stuff leftover than would fit in my suitcases. It will be nice to have a couple of nights to relax at the hotel and have someone else do the cleaning for me, but now I just want to get on the plane as soon as possible. Work is basically wrapped up and it becomes more and more awkward to be around the office. Tomorrow will basically be my last day and then the Japanese consulate just needs to issue my visa and I’ll be ready to go.