Day Three - Saturday

It was a great day to alive. I am still not a good sleep schedule so I tried staying up until midnight and still woke up at 6:00 but that is an improvement as I woke up at 5:30am the previous morning. However, I went to sleep at 8:00pm the night before. But that is probably not interesting for you. Kunming traffic is horrible and the drivers are even worse. So I go to experience the traffic on the back of an electric scooter. WOW!!! What a ride!!! It was terrifying. There is no such thing as waiting for a gap in traffic so that you can turn onto the street. So you just start going and hope that the on coming traffic stops or swerves as not to hit you. Also, there is no stopping to let people into traffic. You honk to notify the driver of the other vehicle which side you are on so they do not hit you. I can’t wait to get my own scooter. I went to an orphanage outside of town in the mountains with some people from Costa Rica and Brazil. All of them spoke very little English so I had to reach back into my high school Spanish and between Chinese, Spanish and English we were able to have conversations. Well, this orphanage is probably one of the poorest in the area because it is so far outside of town, but the children were great. There were about thirty-five kids in the class. We taught them how to say hola, gracias, uno, dos, tres, adios. It was a beginner class for Spanish. It was wild and very loud. I hope that my students have more discipline then these kids.  If not, I will be cracking the whip. JK….I start officially on Friday night BTW. So after we had the class session, we went outside to kick the soccer ball around. MOB BALL!!! The Brazilians and I were just passing around them while they tried to steal the ball from us. It was fun. Also, because it was an orphanage, I did not take my camera along.  So while I was taking with the costa Ricans, it came up that I was a computer tech in the USA. Well, all of the sudden there was a computer problem that I was asked to fix. I can’t get away from it. Move to China and people are still asking me to fix computers for them, and it happened in the third day. Well, that was the extend of my day as I am still jet lagged and need to sleep so it is Saturday night and I will be asleep by 7:00 more than likely.