Today was good

Today I had my first meeting with my department. I will be teaching oral english to the ielts test. I will be teaching classes of about 6-8 students for 13.5 hours per week. If I do english corner I get paid overtime at a rate of 120 yuan per hour. This is $17.64/hour. Pretty good. The other american girl is named lynn. She is from Eau Claire and she is really cool! She got her degree from UW Eau Claire and did an internship in Hawaii last fall for geology. She has never taught english here either and she is my age. This is really cool and we both have the same problem with hawaiian lingo getting stuck in our heads. We both said da kine today! It was awesome!!! So anyway I explored, I am learning more mandarin and also I am making friends overall pretty cool. Miss you guys at home. I will post more pictures as soon as I take some. Kisses to all! :)