Beijing and Bee Fun!:)

Hello hello! Today was a really fun but really long day! We played the part of tourists for the 2nd day...This morning (bright and early of course and Laura you should be really proud that i only listen to my alarm once and get up:) we crammed in the van to go to Beijing...first we went to a sunday morning meeting which was extremely formal. As we stood in the doorway one of the girls on my team had a bee fly up her skirt and sting her on her rear end...absolutely hilarious. Then we went shopping at this international store and ate McDonald's too...Then we got in the car and went to Tianemen (sp?) Square and saw all that stuff...which included buying a kite and flying it around there. The Beijing Olympics will be right across the street so we saw the sight of that which was cool. The headmaster's daughter at our school just graduated from college and she is like our 10th person on our team. She's so funny. She does the best impressions of all of us. Weird to think that a week from today I'll be spending the night in a Beijing hotel for debriefing. Any time we see a person who looks American we ask where they are from...we followed this one guy by the school almost two blocks one day but thought that was a little too stalkerish so we stopped. Yesterday in the pouring rain, we saw some guy wearing a Lance Armstrong shirt and he happens to be an engineer from Austin who went to UT. Then we saw him again today shopping...such a small world let me tell you. It's really interesting being a teacher here b/c in China that position holds a lot of respect. The kids live at school during the week upstairs from us. I have played more uno, go fish, and speed than i have ever played in my life. Kanakuk songs flow from me in abundance whenever I don't like the material i have to teach my class...my kids love those. Oh yes and imagine all of us (13) in this van which is 2x as small as a normal van you think of...the uplander in canada was massive compared to this van! We also bought a ton of stuff...and crossing the street in Canada? now i understand why mulan's grandma called her cricket "lucky" when she closed her eyes and walked across the street. k i think i'm pretty much done for now...to the fam, glad you're back safe and chunk don't die, you have to come to college with me in a month:):):). love you guys, and triple peace from the middle east...be back tues morning early your time.