First blog entry!

We are in Yangshuo, Guangxi, China. The landscape is beautiful. We are surrounded by jadelike limestone mountains enrobed in leafy bamboo stalks and beautiful people who all want to learn English and come to America. We came through Hong Kong and stayed for three days amongst hagglers, tourists and the destitute and elderly after a two-hour layover in the beautiful Taipei airport. From there we endured a 16 hour bus trip on tiny beds through lightning and floods on our way from Shenzhen to here.

We start our teacher training on Monday the 27th so we have several days to venture out to nearby mountain temples and natural cave and limestone formation attractions. The weather is humid and hot except when it rains, usually with sustained downpours and some lightning.

The teaching itself will begin on September 2nd at a public high school in Yilong, Sichuan Province. Our school is located halfway up the side of a verdant mountain and we will be living in a teachers' apartment on campus. Our pictures might not come until we actually get settled in there, but we will add details from our trip so far when that happens.

Lots of love and fond wishes!