Day Two at the Hospital

So I made it through my first day at the Shanghai United Family Hospital, and I even got to leave early to try and get to the Bank of China (the only place you can exchange traveler's checks.) I used my first Chinese Taxi... fortunately one of the women I work with wrote down the adress for me in Chinese on a little piece of paper, so that helped a lot. I'm working for the marketing department at the hospital, which consists of my new boss (who was hired yesterday, just like me, so things are a little hectic) and three women who have been there at least 6 months. The hospital isn't that big as far as square footage goes, but they squeeze just under 200 employees into the building.

It looks like a lot of what I'll be doing initially is going to be market research... for those of you who are unclear on what that means (like I was until yesterday) it basically involves me, with surveys, out in the city looking for foreigners to get their opinion of health care in Shanghai. On the plus side, I'll get to see the city, on the other hand, my feet hurt from the walking I've done in the past two days and I sweat what I feel to be a socially unacceptable ammount... it's not so much the temperature as the humidity, no... actually the temperature sucks too. Regardless, I need to shower and head off (I'm walking to the hospital today but I'm still not 100% on directions.)