Smooth Arrival!!!

Despite traveling for over 24 hours, everything went smoothly. The most difficult part occurred when all I wanted to do was take a hot shower and I could not for the life of me figure it out. The shower water is filtered through this huge contraption and it's not even that complicated. There is really only lever that switches between various degrees of hot and cold. The thing is that you have to plug it in for a long time to warm the water (at least that's what I'm assuming now). In any case, I kind of took a shower without standing in the shower if you can imagine how ridiculous that looked. Other than that my apartment is nice and fairly large (at least by Chinese standards).

On another note, Chinese food has been great. Pork and beef dumblings and an amalgam of other things.

My foreign affairs office contacts have been incredibly hospitable and helpful and they showed me around campus and the surrounding area today. One of them goes by the name Sam.

Once I get more settled in, I swear I will have more interesting posts than this.

- Josh