After a short flight from Rapid City, South Dakota to Chicago, I waited in the airport for eight hours to catch my flight to Beijing.  🙂  So, I talked to random strangers, chatted with some people, and watched TV online (while I can still get it without a VPN!)  The flight was AMAZING!  I don’t really enjoy flying all that much but this particular flight was great!  It was pretty empty on the plane so there was a lot of room to stretch out. My flight went a little something like this:  watch an episode of The Office, eat something, sleep, sleep, sleep, play some tetris, (on the screen in my seat! 🙂 ) watch a movie, get off the plane.  It was probably my best flying experience, EVER. 🙂  I got home at about 2:00 am and couldn’t sleep.  When I finally did get to sleep it was about 3:30 and I only slept for four hours.  Ugh.  I was definitely functioning on adrenaline the first day! 

First day included moving a couch and LOTS of other stuff, trying to unpack, eating amazing Chinese food, helping the new people get some things worked out, getting a much needed massage, meeting my friend Tim who happened to be in Beijing for a couple days 🙂 and climbing 6 flights of stairs over and over and over.  Oh yeah, I forgot to mention biking! 

Tonight I’m having dinner with Mr. Wang to talk about where I’ll be teaching since CRCC will not send any of it’s employees to Tsinghua this semester.  (I’ll try to remember to take his picture!)  Pr-y for something as great as my classes last year.  I’ll let you know when I know!

GB!