Back to School

So, less than a year after I graduated I'm super excited to be back in school, granted I'm just studying one thing, but I'm studying that one thing in earnest. Being around people my age is nice too(I'm mostly around children or people my parents age, or just my parents)
First I need to detail a little bit of the drama that I'm still going through to get my student visa.
A week ago I registered for classes, I was given a list of documents that I needed to get in order to get my student visa, I wasn't told where to get all of them, or that I would need an assortment of other documents from other places in order to get the listed necessary documents. The list doesn't look so bad, only 7 items if you are over 18 years old, and they give you one to start with. Not so bad right?
1. The Original and photocopy of your valid passport and Chinese visa.
2. A form of Application for Visa and Residence Permit which you have filled correctly, and one of your recent passport-size 2 inch color photos(full face without hat)
3. The Notice for Residence Permit and Records of Conversations with a Foreigner Applying for Residence Permit(Students are required to apply for such documents by themselves from the Nanshan Branch, Shenzhen Public Security Bureau if they apply for the first time)
4. A Registration Form of Temporary Accommodation for Aliens issued by local street police station.
5. The original Admission Notice issued by the Teaching Office for International Students.
6. Your Health Certificate issued by Shenzhen Port Hospital.
7. Form JW202 (form of Chinese Visa Application for Foreign Students)
Ok...which one do you think the International Student office already?
if you though #5, you'd be wrong.
#5, when I asked about where I get #5 they said "here, of course" and I said, "well, can I have it?" my only answer "it is not here"
#1 - easy
#2 - was given this form at the Security Bureau, but then told at the Police Station that it is the wrong one, and I must get the right one from them
#3 - still have no idea what this is, and no one is telling me
#4 - finally got this on my 3 trip to the police station, they kept sending me away telling me I didn't have the right documents, and even on the third visit they told me to go next door and make a copy of the page in my passport of my last entry stamp, which they hadn't told me I needed before.
#5 - this mysterious document the International school is missing or something
#6 - This I went to the hospital, they checked me all over, even swabbed my gums - and in a week I can go back to see if I can be admitted to the country...only I'm already here.
#7 - This is the form that they did give me in the International Student Office.
So I'm missing a few important pieces to my Student Visa puzzle....and Thankfully I have 30days after my start of study to complete the process, but knowing the way bureaucracy works in China, I will need all 30 days.
Second thing, less that 24hrs before classes start, I finally found out where and when my classes are, and who my teacher is. This occurred after 2 hours of mind-numbing "Opening Ceremony" then in no particular order it seemed, different classes were called out and then you had to listen to see if your name was called and then go to the front of the auditorium and meet your teacher, or someone who is meeting you on behalf of your teacher, and get your schedule and then are lead to your classroom. It was chaos, the names of the classes were read off in alternating English and Chinese, which mish-mashed pronunciations, mixed with a echoey auditorium and the chatter of students and the distraction of the heat, it was chaos. Efficiency is not the name of this game
Document hassles aside, I got a cable on my electric scooter repaired today and I'm set to scoot all the way to school tomorrow.
I bought pencils, notebooks and a stylus for my iPad to enter the characters by stroke function easily.
Yeah, that's right...I'm excited.