A Little Relief

So we sat down with the administrators yesterday and negotiated our "rules". We can now leave when we want, but we always have to sign out and tell them where we're going. We also have to apply 15 days in advance if we ever want to go further than Yinchuan. Better, but still totally lame-o.

We start classes today. Without the freshemn, we're teaching about 14 hours a week on even weeks, but only about 8 on odd weeks. However, in 2 weeks when the freshmen are finished with Military training, our class load will double. Boy, we're really looking forward to that. Hopefully we won't actually be teaching 28 hours on even weeks.

The other Americans coming to Yinchuan are still not here. They should be coming in the middle of next week if all of their passports/visas got worked out.

Yikes!!

Our school just informed us that we are now severely restricted on our ability to leave campus. We must always be back on campus by midnight, and we are neevr allowed to spend teh night in Yinchuan. We must always sign in and out when leaving or returning from campus, and must always make sure the secretery knows exactly where we are going at any point in time that we are not on school grounds.

Not cool.

Hopefully this will be taken care of by the end of the week.

Getting ready to go back...

Today we did most of the cleaning/packing for China. Soon and very soon.

Our flight leaves on Monday the 25th for China.

I miss our friends and family already.