Bright Lights...

Well after about 16.5 hours on a plane, 3 movies( technically 4 because we watched the pink panther twice), and a 25 minute van ride we finally made it to our Mother's Choice Guest Flat. Wenda and Philip greeted us at the air port and took us on an exciting drive back to Mother's Choice. I say it was exciting because they drive on the other side of the road here so every corner was a bit of an adventure where we sort of thought maybe we were going to die..For one week we live on the 2nd floor of a building that's way up on a hill it's gorgeous. Through the trees we can see the city it's amazing! Sleeping is a bit of a challenge with the time change and everything, but i'm sure with time I'll adjust to that.

Wenda( who is our contact person at Mother's choice) is so precious... she's at least a full foot shorter than me( which is saying something seeing as back home I'm generally a smaller to medium height) One of the first things she said before we walked out side was ok ready? and I didn't really think anything of it, but then the instant we walked outside we understood what she meant.... Although the temp. was only around 77 degrees ( I think that's what it is - they said it in Celsius so that was what my calculation came out to in farenheit) which is cooler than normal due to rain , It was freakin hot outside!! I mean we're talking every inch of you starts to sweat the instant you step out of the air conditioning and into the heat! But I guess i'll get used to that pretty quickly too. Right now we're in the mother's choice guest housing where families who are adopting stay and then next week we move to the volunteer housing. THis is so that if we have the swine flu we don't give it to any of the other volunteers right now.... And yes if you were wondering it's just as the pictures on the news show... People really do walk around with those surgical masks on ALL the time! it's semi rediculous and I don't really get it but whatever! ANyway It's a new day and I think i'm going to try to get another hour of sleep and then sit on the front porch for a bit.... Hope Home is good. Love and miss you all!
Tina

The above picture is of a box of tissues- in english and chinese, and a can of coke also in English and Chinese, our living room and finally Maggie and I's room. Laura and Lisa's room is up stairs... I figured considiring the number of times I have to go to the bathroom having a room upstairs wouldn't be logical... thus the room downstairs...

Also, This morning we discovered a pet.. Maggie went outside to check the weather and survey the city in the daylight and in came a small lizard... Then when we tried to find it and send it back outside... it went missing, so now somewhere in our house is a small lizard. It's a little Nast...