Feast Fit for a King (and queen)!

Hello Friends and Family,

Well, yesterday we had quite the experience! We spent most of the day in our apartment with the gentlemen that came to fix our toilet! That's right, we have a toilet now! It is so nice to be able to sit down and relax when going to the restroom. :) After the put our toilet in, we had to go across the street and get our photos taken for our new visas. We went to our contacts office, Celia, and she was not there but there was a gentlemen there that was very kind. He hardly spoke any English, but he wrote on a piece of paper 'we are good friends'. We managed to explain to him that our Chinese was not so good, so he handed us a Chinese Business book called 'the secret to success'. I think he thought that would help us learn Chinese.

Last night we went to dinner with our two bosses; Mr. River from the college, and Celia here from our apartments. They took us to an extravagant restaurant that was absolutely amazing. Everyone there was waiting to serve us and we had Beijing duck, fried pumpkin, pork, cabbage soup, flower tea and even a little fish head! They showed us around the entire restaurant. I think we are going back on Friday so we will take pictures and put them on the blog.

Today we traveled downtown to try and get our physical so we can get our work visa. We met two teachers from Thailand and learn some Thai words also. It is fun exchanging English for someone elses language and trying to learn.

Here are some pictures of our view from our apartment balcony:





And this is a picture of the entrance to the college where we'll be teaching. The classrooms are in the tall building in the back.



Looks like Disneyland!

Thanks to all of you that have e-mailed and called. It is so nice to stay in touch with you. You can call or e-mail any time. We are not able to view this blog after it has posted, so if there are mistakes, let us know, but China restricts access to certain websites and apparently are blog is censored here. But we can still post. We love you and will talk to you soon.

Sincerely,
Ryan and Kealy Thorson