After getting up at 3am to shuttle to the airport, then a short flight to San Francisco and a two hour wait, it was all aboard for Beijing. We took off at 11am and landed 12 hours later. I am ok with the long long flight and Beth was antsy but managed to sleep some. Grace was fine, kept herself busy and all and all it was fine.
Beijing airport is lovely and things look brand spanking new here thanks to Olympic upgrades. Robing and his 9 year old daughter, Katie, met us and we hit the supermarket for some staples on our way to Hope. The girls are getting lots of attention and doing actually quite well using their Chinese. I knew it would pay off eventually. I am proud of them.
The area that we shopped in is a western area so it was a pretty fine store with all the western foods we have at home and then some...........British, American and Australian. Lots of organics which was a surprize.
Robin took us to Hope from there. It is a very large complex in the countryside and a fairly remote area on the edge of Beijing.
We are in the big apartment and very comfortable. We had a tour of the place and began to fall in love with all of the sweet little children. There are many more than at Starfish and it will be hard to get to know them all. I had the opportunity to meet Joyce who is a little under the weather. There are other volunteers here but we haven't met them yet.
By 8pm we had had it and were off to bed. Ah, the lovely slab like Chinese beds. I meant to bring an air mattress.
Isabel.......I sent an email........reply and we will see if things are working as they should.
Love you.
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