Our Home

Here is a little video about our new home, number 404. It is a good place to live for 4 months. I don’t know about long term but its ok right now.
We were a little surprised when we first arrived here by a few things; namely the toilet and the bed. We are getting use to it, slowly but surly. Don’t get me wrong I would prefer a mattress and a sitting toilet but I will take what is presented to me. I just have to keep reminding myself… at least the toilet flushes.
One of these days I am going to count how many stairs I climb everyday. We live on the 4th floor of the dorms, and we teach on the 5th floor of the school. There is no elevator in the dorm, there is one in the school but it is on the other side of the building. Needless to say we climb a lot of stairs each day.
We also found our first DVD store, we had heard so much about them and had gone exploring to find one 2-3 times and were beginning to believe they didn’t exist. Serina took us to Downtown Changzhou on Saturday Night and took us to the infamous DVD store. There were a million DVD’s. Chad found what he wanted, the complete series of Seinfeld. There were 10 discs and they were 15 RMB each, (one dollar = 6.8 RMB) that was pretty expensive for a DVD but they said that it was hard to come by or something. Anyways we were pretty excited; we got home and put on in. It turns out it isn’t perfect quality… Its pretty blurry but it works. We also got Dumb and Dumber (Chad favorite movie) and Fireproof, we had heard it was a good show and the DVD store is like a Redbox. It’s a dollar to view one and we get to keep the movie ☺
I would recommend Fireproof, it was a really good show, quite cheesy but good.
Anyways, at the store I couldn’t think of any movie I wanted so I was just looking at all of them but couldn’t really find anything. So if you think of a show that would be good to have leave a comment and tell me :)

A few days later…..
We went back to the DVD store with some girls from our group and we got a few more movies. We got the complete set of Planet Earth! And Beauty and the Beast. :) Planet Earth is way cool, we love it.
A teacher at the school, Linda, took us all to get massages last night. It was amazing; we got head, shoulder, and feet massages. It was so fun. All 7 of the ILP teachers were in one room each with our own masseuse, it was pretty crowded but so funny. It was the first time seeing Americans up close for all of the workers. They were pretty excited and definitely got pictures will all of us. Chad is a big hit with all of the Chinese women, they all tell us he is handsome, I just point at my ring and walk away :) (ok not really but close)