Im safe and sound in Beijing and having a great time!
Love love LOVE my team and team leader. We are the smallest team and we have so much in common already. We've already had to force ourselves to socialize with other teams because we found ourselves only hanging out with each other! It's a good thing, I guess.
We've jumped right in to training. Last week we did a good bit of exploring the city and learning how to order food... I thought I didn't remember any Chinese but a lot of little things are coming back to me. I also thought I didn't miss Chinese food, but I've been pretty excited about everything we've eaten!
Since our team is staying here, we've already seen our school campus. I have to say, I think we have got it made. Our organizations headquarters is on the campus of our elementary school which means we have access to a dryer, a full kitchen, a baby grand piano, and best of all, we will get to celebrate holidays with our "family."
There is still a lot of training ahead so keep us in your thoughts. Some of us non-education majors (like me!) still have pretty much no idea what we're doing.

This picture is from our first day of exploring.... these are scorpions, sea horses, and starfish- that you can eat! The scorpions are at this point still alive and squirming around on the sticks. They deep fry them. I didn't try them but a few people did. It's only my first week, not feeling that adventurous yet. :)