July 2nd in China, First evening here!

Well after an hour bus ride to the hotel we were staying at I was feeling so beat that I could hardly stand, unfortunately it was only about 5:00 so I had to wait a while before being able to go to bed. I had to hand in my passport to the desk at the hotel to check-in and then I had to chase down one of the hotel workers as the bus was being unloaded because he had my bag! LOL I know he was just trying to get things unloaded fast but it was still funny trying to communicate to him that he was hauling my bag and that I could take it.

My roomie and I got our keys in the lobby and were one of the first to get to their room. Right away I decided to hop in the shower to freshen up and hopefully wake up a bit because we only had an hour until we had to be back in the lobby to go to a meeting. I ended up having to take a cold shower because I did not know how to turn on the hot water. In China the hot water heater is on the wall above the toilet and apparently you have to switch a button to get hot water. Lesson learned! Also the bathroom is weird because water doesnt drain right into the shower, in fact there really isn't anything stopping water from flowing out on the floor, it is suppose to be like this, the shower is the same level as the floor of the rest of the bathroom and a drain in the middle of the room is where all the water goes. It is odd that the whole bathroom floor gets covered in water each time you shower but whatever.

Our room is pretty nice, clean and has a great view. We ended up getting a room on the 7th floor so that is cool. The mattresses are a bit hard but not uncomfortable and the pillows are weird, they are those seed pillows. You know what I am talking about?? haha

But after getting cleaned up I went down to the lobby to meet up with the rest of the group, we then headed to a canteen/dining hall to get some dinner. It was the most awful experience though because first our guides took us the wrong way twice, then once we got there the canteen only had the menu in Chinese. So 4 of our guides had to help the 60 of us students order!!! It was nuts!! My stomach still wasn't feeling the greatest so I just got a bowl of white rice. I did get to eat some of my roomie's curry chicken though. It was pretty good, by the way I ate it all with chop sticks. :)
While everyone else finished their food I rested my head on the table until we had to go.

We headed to the student activity center where our meeting was. We were all given bank cards (In case we decided to use them) and also temporary cards for the canteen and dining places on campus as well as cell phones. After being told about the things that would happen the next day we were free to leave.

I pretty much passed out when I got back to the room, so I could get up and ready for the day to start at 7 am the next morning!