Picture time!

Hello! If you're reading this after getting the e-mail, yay! I finally found a place I can update to with pictures and everything!



So let's begin with pictures:


If you see the picture from the previous post, Scott is holding this pig in the store before we bought it. After we got it home he was not so nice to it anymore. Here you see the pig pillow suspended from the drying rack on the ceiling of the living room. That door you see is to the kitchen. Not too long after this he stuck the pig pillow on top of the air conditioner in our bedroom. He thinks he's funny.



Last Saturday Scott and I went with my friend Maia and Echo (the woman from the Dept. of Education that basically got us here) all travelled to Zhenjiang. Its a town of about 2 million a half hour from here by express train. We went and met the other foreign teachers living there and teaching at the University. We went out and had dinner too. They are all wonderfully nice and funny people. We're hoping next time they can all come to Nanjing for some dinner. We've made plans to head to Zhenjiang again for a thanksgiving potluck (who knows what we'll be eating).


This is the group in Zhenjiang. In the back row we have (from left to right): Echo (she's standing on a chair and she's still not taller than some of the guys), Kellen (from OR), Nathan (from CO), George (from IN), and Matt from Australia. In the front we have Justin (from AK), Liz (from OR), Maia, me and Scott.


This was the sign for our train home. It says train D446 is coming at 8:29pm and its taking us from Zhenjiang and Nanjing. (In the middle line of red characters, the two on the left are the symbols for Nanjing).




We haven't begun teaching yet but I start on Monday. I have one class of English majors at 8am on Monday and the other at 8am on Tuesday. The rest of the classes don't start until the following week because those are classes for post-graduates and PhD candidates and they start later.

Our Anniversary was the second of September so we went out to celebrate. We went to the Confucian Temple here in Nanjing. It has turned into more of a shopping center, entertainment place but it was still really neat.

This is the river at night. You can take little gondola rides down the river. We chose to save that experience for a later date.




We did go on a tour of the Confucain Temple, though most of the signs were in Chinese so we didn't always know what we were looking at. This pagoda was in a garden and arts center at the end of the Temple. It was a really beautiful and serene place. They had traditional music playing. It was really lovely.


Here we are on our first anniversary. We got a little dressed up to go out. We did end up having dinner at McDonald's. It was great.


So classes don't start for a few more days. We going to go to those first classes together, just as a little introduction. I think we're both nervous to really begin so if these go well it'll give us more confidence to really begin the week of the 17th.

Hope you all are well!