They made it to China

Cool school bus

Luke in the kindergarten classroom
John called me late Friday night to say they were now in Qing Dao with the professors. It was a grueling trip. Flight left Springfield at 2:30pm Thursday and after a 7 hr layover in Beijing airport from midnight-7am, they caught the flight to Qing Dao and arrived Saturday around 9am. Luckily he was not expected to teach on Saturday. His teaching began on Sunday. Because the Dragon Boat Festival takes place Monday-Wednesday, the kids were going to school on Saturday and Sunday. Luke met his kindergarten teacher on Saturday and John enjoyed all his favorite Chinese dishes prepared by the professors.
John said that Luke woke up at midnight but he was able to get him back to sleep and they got up at4:30a to start the day.
John dropped Luke off at school and said he jumped right into things, not a shy bone in that boy's body. His day went well and he said he was excited to go back. It is a Montessori school and it looks like they only have around 10 students and three teachers. He goes all day, has lunch provided all for $100 yuan ($7.8 USD) What a deal. Lily will join him next week. So with the festival this week there is no school until Thursday.
John wrote a quick note to say something did not settle well and he is sick, no details, just sick. I would not go into the specifics anyway but at least he is off for the festival and will have time to recuperate. Sun Li is taking Luke to an amusement park Monday. I'm sure he is having a ball with all this attention from the professors.

Close to China

We are just two days away from half of us leaving for China and the time is flying by. Passports, clothes,medicine, shot records, entertainment for Luke...what am I forgetting? Hopefully nothing we can't live without for three weeks. It's not like we can't get it in China if we do forget something. Luke is excited ands asks everyday if this is the day he leaves for China. I did ask him if he is going to miss his Mama for a week while we are apart and he said yes. It will be strange not to see his bubbely, smiling face each day. Lily, on the other hand is looking forward to having Mama all to herself. She has already asked if we can go to Incredible pizza together while Luke and Daddy are gone.