Twice moving in one week

My first week in Shanghai included 2 moving experience.

1) office moving –
First date for moving our new office was Monday 9th April.
According to the Chinese calender this is a miserable date. In only brings bad luck… Same for Tuesday. So we decided to move in on Wednesday. There was one company who took off the internet. Another one who packed in everything and another company who was responsible for the actual moving part. One guy took even advantage of our power and charged his electric bike. Thats China. After lunch, everything Is packed and we were ready for moving. However, they didnt let us leaving. No worries… So everybody was sitting in the office waiting for the property manager. Somehow our Chinese colleagues were able to manage it. (after few hours)
The new office looks nice and we were even able to work later that day and of course the fancy MILA wall makes it very sexy. Pictures will follow.

2) appartement moving
This was quite spontanous. Friday dinner, our colleague and friend informed us that she get kicked out of her appartement by Sunday. So she would have another day to find a new place. That’s what happened on Saturday. She talked to a agency and found this appartement in Pudong… Let’s say… Its almost out of the country for her. Way different part of the city. Sunday passed by and we got a message that she need to get out of the old appartement at 10 PM (!) and it would be great if we could help her. Thats what we have done. At 10 PM we arrived at her old place and took all the boxes to the little truck which was waiting downstairs. She drove with the truck…and we took the taxi to the new place. She was so confused that she gave the taxi driver the address of OUR appartement. Wtf? Is she living in the same place? No… But nearby, so we could walk. We took all boxes again to the elevator and finish. We were happy to get a beer for a reward afterwards. Moving at 10 PM from a completely different place to another was definitely an experience. But hey. Thats China.

schweigi is bigger than the truck

byebye old appartement