Has it been a week already?

I can not believe it has been a week since I have arrived in Beijing already. I have done a lot of things to prepare for classes and I have also done some fun things.

I was just able to get a good connection to the internet at my friends dorm room, so I was able to update my blog alot. Everything in China has been pretty nice except for one thing ... getting online is hard. I have been able to send and respond to email, but getting onto website is tricky. Sometimes you can visit websites and sometimes you are unable to for some reason. For being such a big University, the internet is really bad. I do not think this is the MIT of China anymore. I was watching my connection rate and I was receiving at less than 10 KB/s most of the time I was updating my blog.

Anyways, I have lots of stories and thoughts about Japan which will take a little longer to write. Since I need to eat dinner and start my homework I do not have time right now, but by the end of the week I will post all of this.

Thanks for being patient guys.

Oh yeah, if you want me to send you postcards or anything in the mail, just send me your address.

As for the time difference. I am a day ahead of you guys, but the hour is 9 hours behind you. So when I get out of class at 2:00 pm it will be 11:00 pm in Seattle. That might be the likeliest time anyone will see me online.