Day 1 and 2 Big adventure times....We arrived in China at 8 pm thursday night which meant we lost thursday all together....Fell asleep as soon as I got to the room....Friday morning we had to be at a meeting at 10 but we met for breakfast at 9 there are 20 of us here and lots of nice people...only four will be going onto my city when I leave here...We saw a disney english center and ate at an italian place...the pizza was very weird....The toilets are indeed in the ground and you get to squat over them...lesson I learned on day 2 it is essential that you carry your toilet paper with you or else you have to use notebook paper...no public restrooms have toilet paper.....there are some toilets that are western style like ours in america but not many....Today I went to down town and we did a lot of walking..I road on the Metro and played around at street shops...after we got back a friend and I found a really neat park near our hotel where we layed in the grass and people were flying kites and playing around...I went to find a bathroom in this park and discovered there is a bumper boat place and lots of games and stuff.  Earlier in the morning there were belly dancers performing at the park...we stumbled across the craziest sign at one of the parks....I hope that pictures will be up soon of it because it made us laugh so hard...the rules were crazy.  After the park we went to dinner and back on the metro to down town and we walked around and got some drinks at a street shop...really neat little side walk cafe....There are lots of street food venders here.....It is weird not speaking the language but I now know how to say hi and thank you in Manderian...Hopefully I will be able to get on Rosetta stone and learn some more soon....Anyways it is late so I am going to go...This city is amazing...abit like what I think new york city must be like...Now that I have a program that lets me through the fire wall there will be more to come soon!