I'm here!

2 hours to LA

14 long hours to Shanghi

7 longer hours to Hefei (bus)

I finally made it to China! China definitely has a smell. I'm mostly used to it by now but, when I first stepped off the plane I whiffed in and... armpit meets 2 week old egg rolls. The traveling was the wors

t part. Sitting for LONG hours and maybe 4 hours of sleep. I'm glad I don't have to do that again until I leave. 

Our school campus is huge! There are three story buildings for each "class"... primary & elementary and

 then there are a bunch of dorms, cafeterias, gyms, teacher housing and other administrative buildings. Our apartments are kind of crappy. Although, I am getting used to them :) In mine and Tammi's room our toilet doesn't work (we use the one across the hall), our heater doesn't work and the light is crazy! It's basically a strobe light so, our room feels like a dance club.

We all went to a park near by the school and fed pigeons. The Chinese people were all laughing at us and probably thought we were a bunch of crazy Americans because everytime the birds would fly near us we'd scream. I finally got brave enough to actually feed some out of my hand. I couldn't watch though :)

This adorable chinese kid was so fun to watch! He just let the birds land all over him. 

Well, I'm loving it here so far and it will only get better. Also, I bought a space heater at the local Market (Joy Mart) for only $12 (us) Everything here is sooooo cheap! Tonight I bought dinner at a Noodle Shop for 6 Yuan ($1 us) China is awesome! I'll write again soon :)