Week 1 complete....The days of training are very long but we def. make time for fun!  I think I posted about the temple I went to see in the last post I can't remember though....If I didn't I went to a really awesome temple here in Shanghai.  It was really pretty though and very neat to see really old budhas. 

Living in China is def. turning out to be an adventure.  Everyday life is harder when you don't speak the language.  EVERYTHING IS A PROCESS!  Ordering food especially turns out to be a process.  The other night we went to dinner and it turns out the menu had no words  and no pictures and NOBODY spoke even a little bit of English.  There we were five grown adults clucking like chickens and mooing like cows and oinking like a pig to try and communicate...Try being the key word...what we wanted to eat.  Go figure not everyone understands what you are saying when you just make animal noises :)  

Yesterday was a shopping disaster.  We went to a mall to get my friend shoes and nobody spoke english.  There was one girl with us that speaks a little bit of Manderian but it took over a half an hour and like 5 different associates to finally be able to understand that they would not have the shoes until tomorrow.  Oiy!  We were cracking up laughing because there is nothing else you can do but laugh.  

Last night we all went out to a Club called SOHO It was so much fun and exactly what was needed after a long stressful week of training.  This club is like no club I have ever been too.  There was a clown and performers and dancing like crazy... It was so much fun.  I am def.  gonna miss having everyone around all the time because we have become a bit like family to eachother.  There is always something to do or someone to hang out with. 

Today it is raining in Shanghai which makes it a bit more work than usual to do anything.  I have been looking for a camera today.  I think I found one I like but it is hard to know what the prices should be.   I am going to find some boots tonight because of the rain.  We walk everywhere so my pants and shoes get soaked.  I think we are beginning to enter the rainy season of China. 

I still kinda feel like I am on Vacation because we are in a hotel.  However, It does feel like we have been here a month and it has only been a week. 

Tonight I think we are going to watch the soccer games but we have to go at like 3 in the morning to because of the time difference.  Everyone is tired from last night so it should be an interesting night of trying to stay awake. 

More details later.  I think we are going shopping YIppeeeee