Hey everybody!!!
Just wanted everyone to know that we made it here to China. After a 13 hour plane trip across the pacific from Los angelos we then took another 2 hour plane to the city we are currently in now. Changsha.
All the baggage got here too!! thank God! I was able to sleep a little, but joe had a hard time. Somehow we left on wednesday from the states and arrived on friday?? hmm go figure.
One girl in our group sat next to this little chinese grandmother who kept telling her to eat more cause she was too skinny. It was really funny, she said the women kept giving her meat flavored candy?? hmmm She thought it was cute for like the first hour of the 13 then it just got anoying.
We have met with some of the students here and they have to be the best and most polite people ever. They are even more polite the most of my friends. We are like super stars, which gives alot of pressure I think.
We have already felt the stares and in fact a couple of the girls in our group were filmed by a family, I guess they just wanted their picture with the americans or something. This is something we are told to expect everywhere.

We are at an internet cafe right now. It is a room the size of a banquet hall , with fake trees on the ceiling and desks with computers everywhere. There are kids playing video games mostly, and even one guy was sleeping. You pay 2 rmb for one hour on the computer, so we are using there computers, we dont know about the wireless thing but it seems not possible at least for now.until we get to our town in about three weeks. This is just oreintation. So email will have to do.
We havent slept at all, They are trying to get us used to the time change , so know now that while you are all sleeping I am typing this!! Awake! The sun also feels hotter here.
Oh and before I forget I just had my first squatter toliet!!
It was in this really dignified hotel that we are staying at. In our rooms there are american toliets, but in the lobby bathrooms there are these huge nice marble, and when I say marble I mean like palace marble!! doors and you open them and theres just this toliet looking thing, but its actually in the ground, so its more of a hole in the ground the flusher is gold and gleeming. Kinda a funny sight, but I ran out right away and screamed to joe!! I got my first squat down!! So excited!!

We love you all very much!! We will try to call soon. I think we will get some international phone cards, but we have to walk again another 20 minutes to get to a "phone cafe" We cannot call outside the hotel with the hotel phone.

Love you!
Joe and emily
We will try to call you as early as it is convenient. We had to walk about 20 minutes to get here with our group.
We arrived safely and are now getting accustom to everything from