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Hey I hope all of you guys are doing well its Sunday morning here and I just figured out that my family has internet and wireless! My parents are really nice and so is my room. Last night my family took me out for Peking duck and to buy a phone. I got a really nice one. The three days in the mountains were awesome but the food there was a bit lacking lol the kids here are really cool.

Anyway my first day of school went really well we had a Chinese placement that I think i did ok on

So I rode the public bus to school today all by myself I even figured out when to get off! After school I went to the Kong Miao or the Temple of Confucius with a couple friends for history class it was pretty neat. The teachers here are really cool. My math teacher supplemented his income in the 90s by giving lectures to school teachers on how to proper use TI calculators so we have spent all week learning how to do fun things with our calculators that are actually fairly useful. We had our first Chinese class today I got put into a beginner class. My Chinese is getting better. Tonight my host mom and I sat down on my bed and I taught her English while she taught me Chinese it was really cool maybe I'll actually be able to understand what she's saying soon :).



 Tomorrow we get out after lunch so we have the whole afternoon free so Alex, Heather, and I probably going to go to either the Beijing Zoo or the Aquarium which should be fun. This morning on the way to school the bus was so crammed full that I barely was able to get on and even then my backpack was shut in the door for most of the trip because I had to stand right up against it. Then when I finally was able to push my way up a little bit the bus stalled or something at one of the stops so the driver had to turn off the bus fiddle around with some switch all with cars swerving around him it took him a few minutes but he got it going again. Man every day here is an adventure. Along with this email I'm sending some pics from camp of Heather, Alex, and I. In the one is Heather and I doing our exclusive C Cup Cleveland Handshake which we have a picture of us doing at almost every major place we've gone to so far. Nothing like east side pride.