we're here

Okay, We're here! I can't seem to have access to the blog however i can still publish entries so hopefully this works!
We arrived in Hong Kong Saturday at 11:00 a.m. The fligth has acually really comfortable and we all had our own televeision and choice of movies and many television staitions so this made the time pass a lot faster. The turbulance on the plane was pretty bad in the beginning, my stomach dropped a couple times and anxious looks were past between strangers. The flight attendants seemed okay so i thought i would be okay. And then, a woman and the back scremed a couple of times which acually brought humour to the situation. The fligth attendants still seems okay so i thought i would only start panicking if the oxigen mask dropped. They didn't and the turbulance eventually past. I will say that i no longer enjoy flying very much.

The past couple days have been very busy and we havn't had access to computers since last weekend was a long weekend and the school was closed. Everything is very pretty here in Jiangmen, palm trees, beautiful flowers and hot weather. Last ngiht we went out for an authentic chinese dinner with our associate teachers and tried to manoever chop sticks, they were all very amused. I didn't do too bad. I was proud of myself for not defaulting to a fork. We toured around Jiangmen yesterday and got some snacks and other necessities (tea, bed sheet, flip flops) at the super market. My roomate Julie has been extremeley helpful to all of us with her knowledge of Cantonese and has made friends with the cafeteria ladies here at the school. I benefit from this because it means less sherades out in public! Damn foreigners looking like monkeys!
We then went to a park in the mountains. We took a van bus up to the top; following the zigzag roads in a manual vehicle all up hill is not the most fun experience. Our coordinator Judy decided to walk back down instead of taking the bus. Lets just say the edge was close and there were rarely guards. It was beautiful and i decided that the experience met my quota of 'doing one thing a day that scares me'. (the turbulance would have to have been the other.... (i'm beginning to see a transportation phobia developping).

I just finished teaching my first two classes and the students all seem very nice and interrested (thats a lie, some of them slept a lot...its monday!) . We watched the 'Dead poet's society' since i will be teaching poetry for the three weeks i am here. I now have a break to get some work done and have a siesta. Their luch is two hours which leaves them time to eat and sleep or catch up on work.
I guess i will leave it at that. Things are good though i am a little bit homesick and missing hot showers ofcourse.

Talk to you soon!
Lindsey