WONG-XU

THat'd be my new name, 'Rising Sun' (Wong-shuu) :D

It's been..... 4 days i think... oh I don't know anymore...., It's been about 100% humidity... or more, I dont' know it it can be more... if so, it is. We didn't see the sun for the first 3 days (because of the fog in the air....not smog.... FOG... it's VERY humid.) Temperatures have been up around... meh.... 35+ on a rainy day which we've had a few of... and it's more like 40ish when it's sunny. The humid feels worse though.

The food's been good, and I've been given strength everyday to keep going. Currently, I'm in three different teaching groups... sorta. Remember before I was supposed to be just a plain adult teacher? Well, I get here, and I find out that they want this to be very FUN. FUN means music. Gary(17) from BC and I are about all the music talent they have, and lol, he doesn't like to sing that much. Ergo, I do the singing for the teens about 20 of them, every morning now, and then the adults, about 140, in the afternoon at 2. The first day scared me out of my mind, but even though it's very scary, I've been able to do alright with it by my standards, and very well by what everyone else tells me. I have a bit on video already to see what it's like to do what I've been doing. I've met many people, and seen so many things that will take an entire day to explain at all.

Qichun is indeed a village.... and (it's pronouced Chee chwhen) it has about 100 000 people as a lower sided estimate. Ex. Population of Wuhan in books is 7 000 000, but in reality is closer to at LEAST 12 million.

THe bathrooms at the hotel are western, so that's kewl, but at the school, it's the other extreme. It's a trench with a slant, and every so often someone comes with a bucket and sloshes it from one end to the other. Great fun. :P I'll need a good shower when i get back... whew....

Oh, I got a haircut! They shampooed my hair alone, twice, for 20minutes in total. The actual cut took about 40minutes. They did an amazing job.... It's assumed I'm probably the first westerner they've ever seen in their life, ergo, they pulled out all the stops.

Yeah, it's all good. ANyways, Gary's losing to a computer here, so i'd better help him out. Heh. It's Quarter to 8 here, so, goodnight to you all very soon! :D