Hey everyone, this is Ted writing today. it is Saturday morning and we made it through the first week. It was very fun. The children we teach are crazy. The first day they just ran around like madmen. they are getting a lot better. Teaching is fun and we plan our own lessons so we like to spice it up. We teach everyday next week but we will try to travel somewhere next weekend.

Today we are going to the downtown market. The school is about 20 minutes from downtown. They have a nice temple there and you can get a lot of stuff for very cheap. Everything here is so cheap. We all went out to eat at a restaurant and the total came to ten American dollars for nine of us. they have these Twinkie like pastries but much better than Twinkies that I love. And the candy is incredible. the small market store here has more candy than Costco.

I can see about 25 cranes just by walking outside. there are sky scrappers going up left and right. They are all surrounded by tall bamboo scaffolding. The drive from Shanghai was 8 hours of 30 story housing complexes. It is amazing to see so many people and still at night it is very quite. maybe when we go to downtown it will be a lot more busy. where we live it isn't bad at all. but there are still tons of housing buildings suronding the area.

There are tons of bikes and scooters everywhere.

I have to go right know so I'll update you some other day