more beijing

Well I arrived safely and am now moved into my dorm room. Its pretty nice, though the shower is kind of yucky - but at least there is hot water!
I just finished taking the Chinese placement test. Needless to say, it was hard.
We took a tour this morning of the area around the campus. Its pretty normal for Beijing - not pretty, lots of Chinese people, traffic, and lots of potted flowers for the Olympics.
Internet is apparently pretty slow in this dorm, which I can attest to. It also wants me to put in my username and password a billion times before it decides to let me log on. We have to pay for internet access. I paid 120 kuai (5 dollars or so) for 30 days. Though I didn't bring an ethernet cord so now I have to adventure out and buy one.
Tomorrow is more orientation, and tomorrow night everyone's Chinese roommates move in.
Anyone want to send me mail?!

Callie Ellison
CET Academic Programs
Capital Normal University
International Culture Plaza
83 Third Ring Road
Haidian District
Beijing, China 100089


I don't know if mail will actually get here if its in English. I have the address in Chinese characters, but getting them on the computer is the hard part. I'll see what I can do.


Zaijian!