Well I have been here now for 2 weeks. It was a long trip, 9 hours on a plane from Vancouver to Narita Japan, (close to Tokyo). The next day another 3 hour flight to Dalian China, then a drive to to school. It is HOT here. My hair is bigger then my butt, and looks a lot like frow on many days. When I first got here it was so humid that after about one hour outside you were covered in sweat. When we got here we had 4 days to get ready. We spent those days SHOPPING and shopping, house hold items, we only had what was in our suitcases. But it is cheap here, about a quarter for a beer. 1 dollar a meal. We did a drive by tour of Dalian but the water and cliffs, wow! What a beautiful place. There are castle like buildings, and many older looking buildings. Once you get out of the tourists areas, it gets china looking, dirty but friendly and lots of abandoned buildings. And here there are fireworks, every DAY. They are always celebrating something here.
I am teaching math 10 and Science 10. These students work hard and, try their best at English but it is much poorer then I expected.

What else? Oh yes! I got the bed bugs last week and man they bite, I had red dot's all over my body and 20 dead bugs in my bed. I had to raid my room. I think I was raided in the process. Hopefully only took off a few years of my life. The bugs are every where here and are huge compared to home, but that is something I am loving and everyone else is not.



Us walking through Kaifaqu.