Finally arrived in China!

Well, since Vernon has been slack about blogging, lol, I figured I would go ahead and get the next entry started :) . Today was our first full day at Sias, and it was a great day! We left for our journey to China dark and early at 2:00 Monday morning and arrived here about that same time Wednesday morning. I think when I counted we were traveling for about 35 hours total. We were exhausted!
Today we meet several students that are a part of Culture group, they were so sweet, nice, and funny. They would answer any question we asked. Also, a sophmore student accompanied us on our trip to the downtown area so that he could translate for us, it was beyond helpful. I would had no idea how to even begin to comprehend all the characters and letters, it is very amazing!
While downtown I saw a few baby butts, strange and unusual. The very small children here do not wear diapers, they have slits in the back of there clothing for the poop to come out of. Apparently, the Chinese get their children on a "potty schedule" or something and whenever it is time for them to go, the parent just holds the children over the appropriate potty spot! I am really quite intrigued by this. Why cant Americans do this, we have trouble just getting our children potty trained.
After the downtown area we came back to campus and went to the Waka store to get some essentials,aka toilet paper, and then returned back to the apartment.
Our apt is on the 5th floor and it quite nice. So far I have found 1 English speaking channel. We went up the the roof today (6th floor, it is also the laundry room), it was beautiful! The campus is such a mix of East and West, and they are both right here on one campus. I hope to explore a little more tomorrow and hopefully have a few more stories.
Ashleigh