First Day! - Blogabond

After a experiencing a few hiccups with delays and flight times at the airport I finally arrived in Beijing on Tuesday 30th July at around 5pm local time.
Upon arrival at the University I was given a key and pointed in the direcion of my room! Despite having gone 51 hours without a proper shower, no clean clothes and only a few hours sleep I had managed to remain positive and was still really excited! This wasnt the case for very long!! I had to single handedly lug my suitaces (which, by the way, had been given a 'heavy' sticker at the airport as it weighed over 30 kilos!!) up seven flights of stairs!! It was here that I officially reached the point of being pissed off!!

Once I reached my room I was greeted by Elissa and Lucy, My roommates for the next 4 weeks! They will both be teaching in Shenyang, although we wont be in the same school. They had already taken the double room, which left me with a huge room with a choice of 3 beds!! Suits Me!
After taking 5 to recover from the Suitcase/stairs Trauma I only had enough time to have a shower and get changed before our 'Welcome Meal'! Due to the Jet lag I wasnt really looking forward to it and thought it would be pretty naff, but I had a really great time! There are 104 of us attending the programme (which is alot more than I had imagined) and we were all taken to a rather posh Chinese Restaurant (...they just call them restaurants here!!) We had some lovely food (used chop sticks for the first time!! I'm a natural!), loads of beer and everyone got a chance to get to know eachother, it was great! Towards the end of the night when everyone was getting ready to leave, the heavens opened! I have never seen rain like it! We were'nt allowed to leave the restaurant as it was 'too dangerous' so had to stay for another hour or two drinking beer and watching the Lightning! Fantastic!

written by

emmarogers85 on August 2, 2007 from Beijing, China

from the travel blog: Teach and Travel China - 6 Months

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