Finally Pictures

We made it one week. We’ve adjusted to the new time, Alex has started school (which he loves), we went on a mini excursion, it’s been a good week.

Alex’s favorite thing about school is violin, I haven’t heard him play it yet but I’m looking forward to it! He made a friend the first day, and has a few more friends now too. Since his school just opened it’s not full yet, the 2nd grade class only has 8 students. He’s learning his numbers in Mandarin, music class, art class, PE, and next week starts after school programs of ukulele, Tae Kwon Do, and Creative crafting.

We managed a trip to the local Walmart to get some necessities (eventually we’ll start ordering on Taobao and JD.com like everyone else, but not quite there yet). It was our mini excursion, I didn’t think to take pictures while we were there but I’m planning on a solo trip tomorrow and I will try to remember. Some things were very typical Walmart and some things were unexpected.

Next week is the National Holiday and we have the whole week off. We’re going to take a staycation and explore a small part of our new town. As good as the food in our cafeteria is, and it really is, I’m excited to get out at try some local cuisine. I think we’re going to hotpot, Mark’s been hyping this pretty hard so I hope it lives up to the expectations.

It’s been raining most days since Alex and I got here, we had one hot and sunny day (and I got heat stroke). I’m kind of getting used to all the rain, but I could use a break in the gray skies.

I figured I’d close this post out with a couple of pictures of our campus.

Faculty club (not finished yet)

Shot of our beautiful bride (it lights up at night) and the building behind the bridge is the new faculty apartments- that we are supposed to move into by the end of October. We’ll see…