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It rained Monday morning and brought a very nice cool breeze. We also noticed that it blew away the pollution because on Tuesday we could see much further and even saw a blue sky. Unfortunately, the blue sky is already covered today (Wednesday) by the pollution today. Overall the weather has been nice – [...] The work schedule is pretty nice here for us. The kindergarden group teaches in the morning (about 9-11) and the medical group (traditional chinese medicine) works in the afternoon (about 2-4 or 5). I am working at two schools and it looks like I will be working the morining shift at Huiling and the [...] CCS provides food for us at every meal. The cook is a professional cook, and a damn good one at that. Since there are 14 of us here, there is a lot of food prepared for every meal and I never go hungry. I have not been brave enough to eat outside of CCS [...] I am sure that some of you have been waiting to hear if I have fallen in the hole in the ground (ie – toliet) yet. Well, sad to say, I have only seen one hole in the ground toilet and that was at the Beijing airport. Luckily, there were western toilets next to [...] In an earlier post, I made a comment about CCS having the only white people in Xi’an. Well, it turns out I have seen a handful of others, mainly around the drum tower and bell tower (touristy areas). A couple of nights ago a few of us came up with a new game. I [...] Today was my first day of work. Out of the 13 volunteers here, 10 are helping kindergarden classes and 2 are in hospitals. I am the only one that is on my own. Not sure if this is good or bad yet. Huiling is the name of the school and is an NGO so [...] I just uploaded more pictures. I have not finished labeling and turning all of them yet but I am about to go to work, so I will finsih later. All of the night pictures have been labeled. All of the latest day pictures are from walking around this morning – I tried to [...] I got here with little problems. Well, the main problem being that I hardly slept. I got to Xi’an at around noon on Saturday and was able to stay up until about 9pm. Then I crashed hard and slept until about 6am. So far, jet lag has not been a prob. I have [...] |
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