A Good Friday

Today the movers delivered our personal belongings from the US. There were about 17 boxes in all mostly clothing. We have had to check our electonics a little closer before we plug them in. Many can handle 110-240V but we have found out the hard way that there are a lot of small appliances that cannot like AF's clock radio and pencil sharpener. We shipped 3 more electronic dvices that will require a transformer since China operates on 220V. I spent a good part of the morning unpacking our belongings. It was weird opening the boxes with BF's clothes and no BF until the first week of Sept.

Today was also AF's first volleyball game, if that is what you call it. The game was not on the calendar because it was a scrimmage with a top university team, Beijing Jiaotong University. The girsl were huge, not just tall. There was one girl that just towered over everyone. It was interesting to watch and awas a good lesson for the girls. It can only get better from here. We had to also stay after to watch the boy's game. That was also interesting to watch. The University team had some powerful men on the team that could really put away the ball with some powere and speed. They could really get up over the net.

We were lucky and one of the vans were available to go out to the school and back. The last time we took a taxi out to the school but was not sure how to get one coming back. I thought we were lucky when a taxi came by outside of the gates of the school. So I sent an email to a school administrator to find out what the best way was to get a taxi back to the city. She said that taxis were regularly scheduled to be on campus and we were taking a risk by taking an unauthorized "black" taxi outside the school property.

Here is AF in her volleyball jersey she had to wear to school today.