First days in China

Ok...im seeing if this works. So, Im in China now, and have to go teach a class in about an hour in 20 minutes. Something about teaching...ive never done it, and they dont supply any materials. So I guess this'll be fun. Luckily classes are only 45 minutes. I thought atleast there would be some sort of textbook though, but there is not. Well see how the first day goes.

Ok...so getting to Wuxi was fun too...hehe. FIrst my plane from SF left like 3 hours late, and I arrived in Shanghai at about 10pm. This is already after having overweight luggage and paying 50 bucks for it and playing suitcase shuffle to bring everything. So I find the person meeting me in China, Lisa. Aparently they dont check flight info since she was there four hours. Unfortunatly she was meeting another guy a few days ago and his flight was also late for 3 hours. She just left him though and got a hotel and he was welcomed by no one. Ok...so customs etc. was no problem. Problem started when I realized we were taking the train to Wuxi. I am not a fan of taking 70+ pounds of luggage on the train. Chinese trains are not meant to have this much on them. And I was carrying most of it by meself...ie the big suitcase and my backpack and my lap top and my purse. Lisa took my little suitcase. And everyone said I packed too much...oops...ill ship it all home. So it finally got on the train, and to Wuxi...we got in around 5a.m...(O...the train to wuxi didnt leave until 2, so we sat in the train station for like 3 hours.) But we got there eventually. Then on Sunday I didnt do anything. I actually was waitin by the phone since I thought Lisa was going to call, but she didnt. So I unpacked some, (and 70 pounds of clothing does not loon like very much unpacked).

Today I was up around 7 and took a shower. Although, the water pipe is broken for the time being so there is no pressure. ( I didnt know thei when I was trying to shower) Somehow i got more than a drip and was able to shower. Then Lisa shows up while Im still in my towel and says we should go to her office. Then she said I was teaching today. I met some other foreign teachers. One name is Paul and he also has Junior school. O...Im in the Junio school which i think is 14-16 year olds, but i tried asking how old the kids were and didnt get a clear answer. One English teacher just said to play games and have fun with them...ummm...ok...

Well...im gonna go hang out for a bit. Ill wrtie more later for sure. This was just a test run at blogging. Now...how do i tell people to read it? I think i must send out an email...which i was trying to avoid by making a blog. Please email me and comment.

More to come
Ttyl
-Leah-