In China!

I could not access Blogger here in China so that last post was a "test" through the blog e-mailing system...but that failed too. So, thank you brother for posting it! However, I just found a way to get my posts up here ;-)

I am going to post a couple of large e-mails I had sent out in the meantime...

I made it to China with ease. Emily and I were told we were "having too much fun" by the TSA guy so we went through those weird air detector things in Albany before the metal detectors. I went through it last time too. In Toronto, the customs asked Emily a few questions but nothing exciting. The customs in China was actually much easier to get through than I expected - there were just a few stops: one took a form, one stamped the passport, one took another form. The first two flights were fast and the long one was fun because we each had a video screen on the seat in front of us to play with. It had TV show episodes and movies to watch. Emily and I watched Adventureland together, then I watched Anvil!: The Story of Anvil, and we started 17 Again but didn't finish before we landed. We were given many meals and drinks as well!! We were picked up by a driver and a worker from the school in a normal sized car so Emily and I ended up squeezing in the backseat with a few of our bags. The ride was about 2.5 hours.

We are in our apartments now - each has a bathroom (a toilet and a "shower"...you can kind of just stand next to the toilet and get water on you hahaha), a walkway from the bathroom with a table & small washer & sink, and the kitchen has a minifridge microwave & cabinets. The big rooms come equipped with a TV (some weird drinking game then karaoke were both on earlier), two phones (i think one might work for international and one for the school but not sure yet), a PC (that's what I am using right now!), a bed, a nightstand and two chairs.

I already knew twitter and facebook were blocked but sadly it looks like blogger is as well. This means I will not be able to write in my blog for now. I may keep trying or look for an alternative but as of now e-mailing me is the best way to contact me. I do not know how to get the internet on my laptop to work and the computer in my room is in Chinese (but the internet can be used in English!). Surprisingly I am not THAT tired right now (it is a 12 hour difference so I am writing this at around 9:40pm my time, 9:40am your time) because I slept in the car from the airport and on the planes. I AM a little hungry but my parents made sure I had plenty of snacks in my backpack!

Tomorrow Emily and I should be meeting up with one of Kim's friends who will show us the cellphone store. Kim's room is 401 and diagonal from Emily's. Kim will be back from Russia on the 29th. Emily is in room 405 and I am in 305 - so directly one floor apart.

That's all for now. I haven't even started to unpack but I will probably have a snack, shower, watch a DVD and sleep.