Friday, 14 November 2008

• China!!!

  Hello from China! What an experience! While i'm writing this most of you are fast asleep. I'm having a real hard time getting on xanga here. They block some websites they don't like ,so you need a special something called G ladder to break thru that. So I'm having to send this to someone in the US to paste on xanga, see if that works. Well any way, I arrived here on Sat. eve at 10pm. Started off Fri. morn from Va at 4 am so as you can imagine that was a little more than 44 hours without seeing a bed. On the last jog after Beijing I could really feel it in my legs. But the jet lag amazingly hasn't been that bad. I found it very interesting watching our route on the map on the flight from Chicago to Beijing. We went over Canada,& Russia. I took a picture of the map when we were going over the international date line. I looked down when we were going over Siberia and saw snow on the mountains. It never got dark on our flight. I am staying on the 5th floor with Nate and Effi. She (Effie)9 months pregnant). since I am here goes up those flights of stairs everyday, 81 stairs to be exact. And they have no elevator either. They live across from the University, in the teacher's apartments. It is a university of around 18,000 students. It is very big. We come over and eat at the dining hall sometimes. Nate is over the foreign teachers,which there are about 100 of them. On Mon. We rented bikes and biked downtown & changed money$B!#(B The people that I have met,( Nate & Effi's friends) are very friendly. They are really making me feel welcome. Last night was my first lecture on a woman's anatomy,pregnancy and birth to a total of 5 girls & 3 married ladies. I was nervous! It is chilly here, has been since I'm here, in the 40's. We are using heaters in the apartment. I brought my clothes over to wash & am using Winni(Effi's friend's) computer. She is also married to an American, A very sweet girl! If these girls could not talk English I would be up a creek without an oar !!! They go out to eat a lot here. It is so cheap. Today Effi , Winni & I went out for lunch. It was $2 a piece. So  i have really been eating typical food .  And trying to learn to eat with chopsticks is an art. Hopefully I will have learned by the time I leave. Two mornings we ate typical breakfasts out on the street (street food they call it). A sad thing indeed was I left my camera on the flight from Chicago to Beijing. But one of the foreign teachers was nice and let me borrow one of hers.  $BB?2C(B duojia (  My name in Chinese written first in characters )

  PS: Will try & post pics here -not sure if I can.  :)
  

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