New pics. Most of the teachers and some of my students. Jessie, Plane and Mikey are on the top. On the bottom picture, from top left: Brent, Tim Lyon, Jay, Lindsey, Helen, Me and Ms Tang. Neil and Arnel are not present.

Summer Palace in Beijing! Where Chris and I should have been spending our honeymoon instead of at the Embassy! I went with a Greek girl named Palagia instead.

Apartment, Changsha campus, obviously under construction!

Descriptions of train accomodations. Top left, hard sleeper, middle left and middle right soft-seat train car, with people in the isles and toilets, bottom right ...the lovely soft-sleeper! Ahhhhh!

2nd last night in Beijing. Korean BBQ with Beate, Gabi and crew, dancing at the mix downtown, watching the flag raise at Tiananmen at 5:45am...and there were plenty of other patriots there to watch it as well!

Shot of the week!

Product on the left is a black-head remover mask and solution. One of the products translates in my electronic dictionary as on the right..."inhaling the membranes of black women's head-ornaments"! So all you black women out there better watch out for your head ornaments when using this product!

Horses and sunflowers!

Road from Shigatse to Zedang!

Shigatse!