Humid and happy

Can I say how happy I am to be out of Beijing! In our 2 1/2 years in China, lets just say that city has a record of 2 MIA cameras. This time the MIA camera began it's new career with someone else associted with the hotel. Also MIA is our ear endoscope, who has a bright career ahead as a flashlight. I'm quite sure the new owners will not have a clue to its real purpose.
The ride to the airport was quick, thank goodness because in the shuttle was another middle age woman complaining profusely about having to ride with the foriegners.
The flight was quick and complete with a Western breakfast. I always love the Chinese idea Western food. Of course, we eat white hot dogs with our eggs and brocolli and warm tomatoes all the time when we are in our native land for breakfast. I ate it except for the white hot dog because I had no idea what food might be in store for me later. My only experience with someone from Hefei was listening to a student report about the food. I remember the student said they eat anything and then rattled off a bunch of things that I would never eat.

Western breakfast

Well, I have been pleasantly surprised! First, the weather is just like Georgia in the summer. Oh, I miss Georgia! It is hot and humid. I feel my skin just soaking it up. Harbin is sooooo dry, we look old within a day of arriving in that climate. Then I was expecting it to be very impoverished. Well, they took me on the scenic new developement route so I didn't see anything worse than we'd seen before. In fact it was cleaner than Harbin. Then a majority of the scooter/motorcycle riders were wearing helments. Nobody wears helments in Harbin, so that was nice to see some concern for personal safety.
But the best thing is that the school is on an island! I love islands! It is on the campus of a science academy.
We were treated to a big feast and one of the dishes was my favorite corn thing.

My favorite corn dish

The co-workers seem nice. We've been issued our uniform yellow polo and our schedule, so we are ready to go.
On the downside, they thought they were going to be able to give Teenager a job, but they had low enrollment so they couldn't do that. She was bummed, but has been very cool about it. She knows we are here for little guy and she's going to be an awesome big sister to him.

Hefei, China