Day 1 of Canton High School in China

Hi everyone ... it's close to 9pm, Sunday April 5th, here in Beijing (12 hours ahead of CT time!) and everyone has just settled down for the day.  We had a very VERY busy first day of our China trip, although most of it was spent sitting in a seat in an airplane.  Our plane left Bradley around 8:45am Saturday morning and we headed to Chicago to switch to a HUGE Boeing 777, which left around 12:45pm today.  The trip was about 12 1/2 hours long ... the students and I spent most of the time watching movies, reading, or sleeping.  The flight was actually pretty uneventful, until the last 15 minutes or so of the flight when our plane experienced a bit of nauseating turbulence from the mountains around Beijing ... a few people on the plane got sick, but we didn't have a huge problem like that in our group (thankfully!)

Our hotel is terrific -- the rooms are a good size and the amenities are terrific!  The students are a bit tired, so I'm sure it will be a early night tonight.  They have full stomachs -- a terrific dinner of Peking duck, rice, chicken, dumplings, sesame rolls, tea and soup! -- so let's hope everyone gets a well-deserved night's sleep. ;)

Please enjoy the pics from today!

Tomorrow we're going to Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, perhaps some shopping, the Temple of Heaven and a Kung Fu Show!  I'll post more tomorrow!

Wanan ... good night ;)