Flying West to go East

Nee how from Wuhan, China!

It's 12:30 a.m. Friday morning and my computer says it's 8:27 a.m. Thursday morning in Portland. Just unpacked and I'm pleased to report all the presents I brought for my new friends made it through unbroken. Bless those baggage handlers' hearts!

The trip over here was uneventful, no issues with connections or finding my way. I was reasonably pleased with myself that I recalled the nuances of getting through Beijijng airport. Since the sun was just 20 minutes away from disappearing, I did get a parting glimpse of the Great Wall as we made our approach into Peking Airport.

As I did last time, I had involuntary naps on the plane from Beijing to Wuhan which is about a 1 hour 40 minute flight. I had quite a greeting committee! Britannia (for those of you who didn't follow my first adventure, she is the young woman who is the liaison betwen the foreign faculty and the school). She brought her boyfriend and one young man who will be in my class!

Since she lives over an hour out of town by bus, the two of them came into Wuhan and hopped a cab and my new student and our driver brought us to West Campus foreign faculty housing. And, yes, I'm back in my old apartment, #402! Seemed like home and I could tell no one else has inhabited it since my departure in Dec.

It seemed so normal...the power was off, the water was off, no heat and no water bottle in the machine. But, my new student made major points with me by waking up the manager and getting him up here to remedy all the above situations. I'm just glad right now that I brought the Cocoon sleeping bag liner I had on my camping safari in Africa with me now...it will be quite a while before the little heater in my bedroom brings the air up to a warm level, since all the windows had also been left wide open.

I meet with a few students tomorrow to discuss how we will change the time on our Saturday class to accommodate their TEUFL study (preparing for an English language exam).

Well, more later on this the 2nd round of my China 'most excellent' adventure!