My Adventurous Husband

I have to admit, I was a little bit worried about coming here and about Jason getting bored. I wasn’t sure how he would adjust to living in a different country and not having anything to do the first little while and not knowing anyone. But, I had no need to worry. He’s been figuring everything out and exploring and talking to people. I’m impressed. I forget sometimes that he’s not nearly as shy as I am.
He’s determined to get our internet working faster so we can watch TV from home better. It works just fine at times when not a lot of people are online (like 5 in the morning), but then as more people get online, it gets pretty choppy.
No one seems to understand him when he asks around about faster internet. One day, I got home from work and he was in the lobby with about 9 or 10 people (including the apartment technician) all who were trying to help him figure out a way to get faster internet. I thought it was pretty funny. I would have given up long ago, but he keeps calling people, visiting stores, buying new things for the computer, etc. He’s been all over by himself on buses, taxis, bikes, etc. He even took a motorcycle taxi the other day. He just takes our little "Survival Chinese" phrasebook and does the best he can with the language.
He has figured out a way to get it faster, but it’s quite the process. We have to first have a Bank of China account, then get a new phone line with ChinaTelecom, then they will hook us up. The school is setting up our bank accounts, but we won’t have them for a few more weeks. So, we’re just waiting and in the mean time Jason is researching other ways to get faster internet. We’re not even sure that it will be that much faster anyway.
He’s really been trying to get everything working so that we will be able to watch BYU football. The first game is on Saturday. Luckily, for us, it’s at 3:00pm MST which is 5:00 am for us, right at a time when the picture comes in really well. So, we’ll be able to watch the first game at least without any problems.