Back home...tired but awake.

I am awake at 4am and can't go back to sleep, so I am not sure how coherent this first post back from China will be...For those that don't already know, my trip home was quite stressful and looong- In a nutshell, my first flight of 3 was canceled and I had to spend the night in Beijing, then take 4 flights total to get home midnight Sunday instead of 6am.

Other than the travel issues, the trip was truly amazing. It was a true learning experience- very exciting, interesting, but also extremely challenging. Because I was the 'supervisor' or team leader, I had a lot to do every day to help my students adjust to teaching there along with adjusting to my own jet lag, the food, and daily living situation. I plan to write much more about all of this, but to sum it up the food was good and I enjoyed the spicy stuff, but since I don't normally eat a lot of rice eating it twice a day every day got really hard for me. The host family I stayed with was incredible and wonderful and I had to adjust to hand held shower and a squatty potty everywhere we went. Overall, the people were the best part and so hospitable. We also go to visit the Panda Sanctuary and several other sites that I am too tired to remember the name of.....

I am trying to upload some video right now but it's being slow. I have a lot from my great Flip that I love...
More to come I promise!