China Greetings

Well its 9:15pm in China and I'm sitting in a "interent cafe." Its kinda gross needless to say. China has been amazing! I would tell you specifics but well... there's lots to say. Having fun with meeting tons of people here in China. The flight here was LONG but we made it shorter by playing tag on the plane. The plane left two hours late so got into Beijing really late. Plus the city is about an hour from the airport. Beijing was cool.. very big and busy. The hotel room was interesting. Susie and I slept with cotton in our ears to keep the cockroaches out; yes we had cockroaches!!! Guiyang was really neat as well. We ate at a nice restaurant and went with our friend Rebecca to do an English Conor with her friends. It was fun to talk with Chinese people who are learning english. Most of them spoke very good english. We went to the night market and walked around. I didn't buy anything but had fun. Haven't ate too many weird things other than duck hot pot that still has the head, neck, and feet in it and water buffalo. Man my tummy hurts!!!! In Kaili we checked into our VERY NICE hotel, ate lunch, and went to the batik factory. There we got our first time to see our "friends" who make the batiks. Needless to say I was really excited to see and meet them. I got very sick at the end so Kris rushed me back tot he hotel where I laid for the rest of the evening... I used the bathroom a lot! (I missed out on a buddist temple and Maio traditional dancing at the arena :( I met two American Olympians at a kayak race in Kaili, Red and Scott. That evening we went to a kareoke bar. This week in China is National Week and Friday was Autumn Day where people eat moon cakes. They are ok. Now we are in the rural parts of China visiting "friends" and getting lost trying to find their houses. No street names out here... lol we will be out and about for four days and then leaving to another provence to visit different friends. Last night we did a english corner at a local school. Gaby and I played hang man and taught twinkle twinkle little stars to the students. Today we had breakfast, visited with a American family who teaches with the school and works closley with our company. Then we went out to visit some "friends." Such a life changing experience. This evening we had english corner in the court yard with about 100 students, dinner and then presented money to orphans at the school so they can stay there. In China, you have to pay to go to any school, even primary. We will be going more into the mountains tomorrow for three days to see more "friends."