“Medical Testing”

Our school (along with all Chinese schools that hire western expats) requires a medical test to make sure that we won’t die before our contracts end. Here’s some of the highlights:

1) Our pee cups were dirty and looked like they were only rinsed out after the last people used them. Mine still had someone else’s name partially written on it.

2) One of the doctors asked Nelly if she was married and gave her his number. Awesome!!!!!

3) The nurses were wearing the same thin plastic gloves that fast food employees wear and they don’t change them in between patients. The girl that drew my blood had a red splatter across one of her gloves. Lovely. I probably have hepatitis now.

4) Doctors smoke cigarettes in the office. I’m not kidding.

5) For our chest x-rays, I was the only one given a lead apron to go around my waste. It’s funny because I’m the only one in the group that doesn’t care about protecting my repro-parts!

6) We were told that we needed to wear formal business wear for the day of our test. We showed up in suites and everyone else from our school (including the guy that told us to dress up) wore shorts, tee shirts and flip flops. Sweet.