Shell in China

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Chengxian, Gansu, China!! Longnan Teacher's College.

That will be our home for the next two years! We are excited to go this weekend and find out what it is like. I just got home from the annoucement ceremony, so I haven't had a chance to research it on the Internet or anything, but at least we have a home to go to! :) We got a little packet that tells a bit about the school and housing arrangements.

Our school is a teachers' college that serves about 4500 students. It is pretty small as far as a college in China goes. They have not had PC volunteers in the past, so this will be new for them and us!

Our apartment is apparently very large, but that doesn't necessarily mean nice. We are on the 6th floor again, in a country that doesn't really utilize elevators! I guess I might as well get over complaining about the six floors up each day here in Chengud, since I am looking at two more years of it. Our floors are cement, so I think I will be finding a place to buy some rugs to soften and warm those floors in the winter! It sounds like the apartment is on campus, but we don't know much else right now. The papers say one thing, but once we get to site and actually see (and hopefully stay) at the place, I will update everyone.

We were given an address, but it is in English, so I don't know how well that will work. I am going to check into what the address should actually look like on the mail and then I will let everyone know when I have it.

I've included a few more pictures as well. The one in front of the lion is at a temple in downtown Chengdu. We went there on a class fieldtrip. The other one is a bunch of us hanging out on campus to celebrate the birthday of one of our trainers.
I am in the orange Brown's shirt (I know it doesn't make sense, which is why I hate them!) Ane finally, there is me with a waffle and maple syrup. There is a western food place in downtown Chengdu called Peter's Tex-Mex, but that have all sorts of western food. We went there to celebrate Gil's going home from PC. He finished his two years and wanted to go there before leaving for the States. It was yummy!!