I MADE IT!!

I arrived in China two days ago, and my roommate Cherie and I are settling into our apartment. The trip went faster than I thought it would go, although I did sleep almost the entire flight. It has been an emotionally draining experience leaving everything behind, but I believe that great things are ahead of me this year, we have a lot of down time right now and I am ready for teaching to begin. I am already learning about myself, and our team is very supportive and open with each other, which is very encouraging.

Yesterday, we went shopping and bought groceries, and we had to stand in line for 45 minutes to check out, it was soo busy. Cherie and I bought a gas lighter yesterday and found out today that we have to buy gas to fill it with and we have to have matches to light it. The moral of the story is that we should just buy matches.

Today we walked out to our front gate and watched the men's marathon as they ran past. We were at the half way point and it was fun to see the crowds of people and feel the excitement of the race.

That is all for now we are about to have a chinese language lesson.

I love and miss you all!