From China With Love!

Well, I've finally made it to China! Here I am at the school using one in the computer lab and I figure I will update you about the last 48 hours. I have pictures, but don't know when I can post them, so until I figure that out, I'll put ***, and that's where a picture will go.

5pm, PT, July 4, LA, California
We left the university where we were training at and as we were packing the bus, I looked up and there was this beautiful rainbow in the sky right behind a palm tree. It's almost as like a good like sign. *** We hoped on the bus, got to the airport, chilled for a little bit, and got on the plane around 11:30pm.

2am, PT, July 5, Somewhere where the pacific meets the coast of Alaska, or Russia, or Canada
We've been on the plane for a while. I must say that the plane ride was amazing. Yeah, the chairs were a little small, but that's ok. I'm a big American. But anyway, the service was wonderful. They brought out tons of food, anything you wanted you could have, and they had little TV's to watch. I watched Troy about 3 times with Chinese subtitles, and about half of 2 Weeks Notice. I also was watching some Chinese soap opera that was pretty cool. I was dozing on and off the whole trip, trying not to stay too much in the Pacific Time Zone, and during on of those little sleeps, my chair decided to stop staying in it's position and swung back. I wake up to a man yelling in Chinese pushing on my chair to stop squishing him. So I did. I got it to a point where it wasn't going to break again, and dozed back to sleep. This happened again about 3 times.

5:30am, Asia Time (no idea what the time zone is, herein AT), July 6, Guangzho, China
Due to the plane traveling West, I got to see the sunrise twice in 14 hours***, and I lost one day of my life. But it's ok. We landed, Got through customs, and met up with our school officials. They took us to this little cafe and we got some coffee. ***, then went across the street to the a hotel***. This was one of the nicest/coolest hotels I've ever been too.*** They got 1 room, and first all the girls went up and got freshened up, then all they guys.

11am, AT, July 6, Guangzho, China
After getting cleaned up, the officials took us to this amazing room and we had lunch. In the center of a giant circular table is a giant lazy susanne. Basically, all the different foods are put on this, and you have a bowl of rice. If you wanted a bite of chicken, spin the lazy susanne to the chicken, grab 1 piece and eat it. If you want a second bite, just grab another piece. At this meal we had duck, chicken, jiaozi (the best dumplings i've ever had), these amazing greens (I asked for a translation on the vegetable, and all I could get was "green, hearless vegetable(the texture was like chives, but tasted like swisschard)), and a bunch of other foods. By the way, Chinese Coke-Cola is so much better than American because they use sugar instead of corn syrup.

I have more to post, but I gotta run. Take it easy and leave me some love