So I'm in China. The hardest thing to adapt to is the language barrier...I have no idea what is going on. The food, however, is awesome. The cafeteria provides a smargoshboard of grub for about 8 rmb (a dollar) that harkens back to the day of school lunches...except these school lunches are Chinese!!!
The plane ride over was awful. The plane that I crossed the Pacific on wasn't very nice and didn't even have the head rests that would prop your head up. The seats looked like those you would see on any regional jet. I have to admit that I slept a good way and was grateful to !finally get off the plane. I didn't get to bed until 3:30 this morning becuse of various things....
So this morning I had the most assinine (spelling?) experience. I woke up and looked at my cell phone and it said it was 5:30 PM. I looked and my watch which also told me that it was in the afternoon. Slightly panicing I got up and went downstairs and asked the girl working at the desk at the foreign dormitory what time it was. She didn't understand. I drew a clock and beneath it I wrote 06:00 and 18:00. She pointed to the 18:00. I about lost it. I had slept the entire day! I went back up stairs dug my phone out and called the number of a program administrator that had been given me in case we missed the ride from the airport. "I'm sorry...and I'm really embarassed but I think I slept through the entire orientation." "What are you talking about?" She then slowly tried to convince me that I was disorientated and that it was still in the morning. I hadn't missed anything...but I had woken up one of the programs coordinators at 5:30 in the morning. Way to get off on the right foot.
The plane ride over was awful. The plane that I crossed the Pacific on wasn't very nice and didn't even have the head rests that would prop your head up. The seats looked like those you would see on any regional jet. I have to admit that I slept a good way and was grateful to !finally get off the plane. I didn't get to bed until 3:30 this morning becuse of various things....
So this morning I had the most assinine (spelling?) experience. I woke up and looked at my cell phone and it said it was 5:30 PM. I looked and my watch which also told me that it was in the afternoon. Slightly panicing I got up and went downstairs and asked the girl working at the desk at the foreign dormitory what time it was. She didn't understand. I drew a clock and beneath it I wrote 06:00 and 18:00. She pointed to the 18:00. I about lost it. I had slept the entire day! I went back up stairs dug my phone out and called the number of a program administrator that had been given me in case we missed the ride from the airport. "I'm sorry...and I'm really embarassed but I think I slept through the entire orientation." "What are you talking about?" She then slowly tried to convince me that I was disorientated and that it was still in the morning. I hadn't missed anything...but I had woken up one of the programs coordinators at 5:30 in the morning. Way to get off on the right foot.
