Beautiful day in Beijing. Today (Sunday) is exactly like it was our first two days here...absolutely gorgeous! we spend the day so far going for walk/bike ride and going to the pool. Tonight we are going for pizza at a neighbors...a group of teachers get together for pizza every Sunday. GREAT PEOPLE! We are lucky to have met and befriended them.
Riley hasn't been writing b/c he was feeling quite under-the-weather all day Friday--he came home from school and slept and even missed the staff BBQ (which got rained out anyway)...but he was really miserable. He thinks he may have eaten something bad? The rest of us are fine though.
Saturday was an adventure. We were daring enough to go to the ONLY IKEA STORE in one of the biggest cities in the world on the WEEKEND! Riley swears he will NEVER set foot in that store again! It worked well though-he went next door to get a blender, vacuum, and toaster, and Kieran and I did the IKEA thing. Got lots of stuff---but when we were checking out-i was in such a rush i put all my stuff up by the conveyer belt (on the non-movable part) and didn't realize it until i got home. i was really bummed b/c i had bought stuff to make rice-krispie bars and couldn't make them without the pan i wanted to buy! so another friend and i went BACK to IKEA and i ended up finding way more than i had originally left on the counter. You would think at 8:00 at night the place woul d have been a little less crowded----WRONG! Anyway-We won't be doing IKEA anymroe on the weekends. i would rather go some night after school. Oh well, it was an experience. We will be making many more trips there as we continue to make this house our new home.
Some of the other new teachers were heading to the Great Wall today-it would have been a GREAT day to do that-would be able to see for miles and miles, but Riley and I both need to get into our classrooms a little-so we had to pass. Our school normally takes the new teachers there, but couldn't this year b/c of limited time. School started 2 weeks late b/c of the Olympics.So they said the would organize a trip some other time-maybe over October break. We get a week off in october-not sure what for. The kids get an entire week-i think we have to work mon and tues and then have wed-fri off....riley and i are asking around. Sounds like most people go somewhere tropical during that time. We will see? May be a time for us to look around here a little?
Anyway-wanted to update everyone. We did take a few more pictures but i left my camera at school to take pictures of my students. Going to look into skype right when i get done typing....hopefully get it downloaded. We have been told it is like a free way to communicate with others who have skype. will be a good way to keep in touch.....
Hope all is going well back in the states. Is anyone tired of the political commercials on TV? I don't miss them!
take care-we miss you all!
Laurie
3 comments:
I check you blog site every day. I am completely tired of the political ads and the RNC is in town this week! Where is the IKEA store? I know that Wal Mart also has a few stores in Beijing. One was very close to the hotel that we used to stay in. Good luck with your classes. I really hope that everything goes well for both of you. Get Skype going. By the way, do you have a phone number. My phone calls to China are very cheap - 2 cents per minute.
Leo
this is a trial run, seeing if I figured this blogging thing out.
An IKEA store in China!!! Who would have thunk! Do they really serve up meatballs and lefsa? Uff da! Sorry I missed you on Skype the other night. Try again sometime.
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