Saturday, December 24, 2011

Friday, December 23, 2011

We are in Shanghai!  We flew in this Friday night, and are going to spend the weekend here.  We booked into a simple, clean, small-roomed hotel, and are tired!  We will let you guys know more about our trip tomorrow.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

So, Mikaela and I went for a walk today.

OK, I say went, but what I really mean is tried to went (if you catch my meaning).

It was a cold, but very sunny and clear day.  We were having a casual conversation as we got bundled up, walked out the door, closed it, and promptly realized we had both forgot the keys.  Our door is always locked from the outside.

Soo, we call our school translator, to see if she could call our property manager's office.  She said that she did not have the number on her, but reminded me I emailed her it.  No problem!  We have WiFi, and we are standing outside our door.  I jump onto my iPhone, and ... no signal.  Our door is steel, and about 4 inches thick.  The walls are concrete, and about 9 inches thick.  Our wireless router is through two walls.

Dang.  We next call our co-teacher, neighbor, and friend, Chris, and ask if he knew where the property manager's office was.  He says he will take a walk with us to figure out where it was located.  We went to the first guard shack, was redirected to another.

Now, our property manager, Mrs Wang, was really nice the first time we met her.  But, we since have found out she likes to scream at workmen, who scream back!  Well, when Chris starts asking if we could get a spare key, she comes in and starts yelling at the guard, who yells back, and she yells, he yells ... gah.

Well, to make a long story short (too late), the guard took us back to the guard shack by our apartment, and let us wait inside the warm building.  The two guards talked with us and Chris (through Chris translating), and both were from up north from a city called Harbin.  Harbin has awesome ice sculptures every year, but it is butt freezing!  Well, since they were both from near the Russian boarder, they said we looked Russian, and started saying how Russians are so beautiful (covertly, they were saying that Mikaela looked beautiful).

So, we got a locksmith, who was in our apartment in 30 seconds.  He was very nice, and we have his number in case that happens again!  Thus ended our short excursion.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Cold and STORMY is the forecast for today.  From now on the temp will no higher than freezing, an considerably below.  Also, the high humidity and slight wind means it is not just cold, but cold, wet, and windy.  Oh well, at least its pretty ...  I have posted a new album called Snow in Yantai on the right -->

Here is the link again:

Snow in Yantai


Cheers everyone!

Zach

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Hello everyone!


So, I added links to pictures on the right hand side --->



Now, as we upload photos to those folders, they should update the links. This means that we will let you guys know when we have added pictures to each album, and you can just come here and click on the links. Let us know how well it works! Zach