Teacher Training

Today was very exciting. Emily and I started our teacher training and met some of the other people that we would be teaching with. They all seem very nice and we may have made some cute couple friends. Emily is excited to be around other people who speak English! We also bought the potable water for our apartment on our own for the first time. There is a complicated ticket/delivery system in place, but it is much simpler to just hand the nice water man cash. Then it is all done! Emily is still going to sleep VERY early in the evenings, but she managed to stay up all the way to 9pm today. She was quite sleepily proud of it. Dinner was an exciting affair at the local "hamburger" stand, where they serve chicken sandwiches and chicken nuggets with sides that include: fish on stick, corn on stick, fries on stick, or chicken leg. I think that nothing complements a chicken sandwich "hamburger" more than a chicken leg. It was super exciting because we got "western style" drinks. THEY HAD ICE!!! Mmmmm...ice. Then we bought ice cream and danced a little bit. The teacher training was very informative, and seems to be very well thought out and set up. The only downside is that, as we are the newbies, Emily and I will have to spend one day a week at a different campus. That doesn't sound too bad until you realize that the bus to there leaves at 7am and returns at 5pm. There is only one bus. The ride is over an hour. I teach 6 classes that day! It won't really be all that bad though since for the most part all of our lessons and plans are laid out for us. The head of our department knows her stuff and really made the process interesting and fun (or at least that's how it looks on paper!). It is time for bed now as I have another exciting day in China ahead of me tomorrow!
Love,
JJ