Beijing for Chinese New Year!

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Hello from Beijing! we spent a few days with the school and their staff (I'm putting together a post about our first real Chinese meal right now) and we signed the paperwork, toured both the schools Jenn and I will be teaching at, and even managed to pick up our luggage that finally arrived from Shanghai three days late! Everything came together so well we decided to continue with our plans and head up to Beijing and watch the Chinese New Year come in in grand style!

Take a look at the pics of where we will be teaching...

Took a taxi to a neighboring town called Yangzhou that was 45 minutes away, then caught the overnight train to Beijing. It was a 10 hour ride and we both had hard-sleepers, which are bunks in a room of six and I believe Jenn is blogging that part of our first train trip here because it was memorable indeed.

Take a look at some pics from our new home city, DanYang...

We are in Beijing now and they charge an exorbitant amount to get online (No Thanks, Marriott!), so these posts will be short on verbiage but the pictures have a lot of detail in the captions so we hope you enjoy the pics and information!

Take a look at the pics of the Temple of Heaven here in Beijing...

Yesterday we went to the Temple of Heaven and today we are hitting Tian'anmen Square and the Forbidden City, then heading out to the Beijing Opera this evening!

Take a look at more street life pics here...

Back soon with some amazing pictures and notes from another day in Beijing!