Life is good

Daddy! I'm really here! I'm doing it. It's taken a few days of bad food, but I finally feel like I'm in China. You wouldn't believe some of the stuff that is served to us here at the school. One day we were given fish cut into bite sizes, but there were pieces that we could definitely see bones in. My stomach has been turned quite a few times. We've found ways of avoiding the food. For breakfast, we have a big bag of oatmeal and we put peaches and brown sugar in it. The food is going to be the hardest part for me. Last night we were talking about some of the restaurants back home that we love so much. I had to walk out on the conversation before I produced too much saliva to swallow.

The other day, my roommate and I wandered around campus. Yeah, it's pretty much as big as a University campus. They have a nice track and astroturf field. They have a pool as well, but for some reason it is empty. As we were walking around, we found out just how close the campus gets to the mountain we're next to. We're pretty much at the bench of the mountain, and it's so gorgeous! It's so green here! But what makes it so green is, of course, the humidity. The other day, our regional director, Mista Li, said we were going on "trava," which turned out to mean travel. We thought it was just going to be a morning thing. No, it was the whole day! It was hard! We didn't bring enough water and we had been sweating so bad. Once we got back we were so happy. A few of us had some nasty headaches from the dehydration. My body is not used to sweating that much.

I love you, Daddy. I miss you. Tell the family I love them, even Mom, even though we talk everyday on Skype.