This past week we truly felt like adventurers. We have mostly had guides and people to help us around while in China, but here we were totally on our own. Xi'an is such a cool place, so much to see and so many different people to meet. We came in by fast train on Thursday morning and headed out to find our hostel. We couldn't check in until noon so we decided to find some food and see what was close by. Apparently we were in the cell phone district because every other store was selling phones. Everyone was super hyped up due to the two new Iphones coming out. Seriously, they had some rapper come and perform outside (I don't know how popular he was) but he was throwing out freebies, Michael caught a bunny toothbrush! haha

(here are some pictures of our trip to Xi'an)

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So i'm truly sad that I can't Instagram due to lack of Wifi in Luoyang. But since Instagram has become a part of my life by creating a digital index of what's happened in my life since 2010.
Naturally, I still feel like I should post them.
Even though there are a bunch of Instas waiting to be refreshed once I find Wifi, I will post them all here so that things can be up to date.

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Not only did we get to see historical sites- but we also were able to go to two theatrical productions.

The first one was an Acrobatic Show, and these guys were straight up amazing. Their flexibility alone is ridiculous. The guys were super strong and had some mad hops. Since it was a dark theater with fast moving people on the stage the pictures aren't so great, but there's some good action shots. So just pretend you're there ya know?

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Teaching in China in Luoyang has so far been very fun and rewarding. 

We were originally assigned the Luoyang no.2 Foreign Language School teaching Middle School at their new campus. However, they were in need of more Foreign Language teachers at the Primary School on their old campus. So here we are!! We actually love our location because its very close to town so we walk wherever we need to go, or catch a bus. Our apartment is also on campus so we just walk across the track to get to class. 

Michael teaches all 1st grade and half of 2nd grade. 
I teach the other half of 2nd grade and all of 3rd. 

We each have 13 classes a week that last for 35 mins, with about 40 students in each class. So learning all the names is close to impossible. Especially because they have both chinese names and western names. But we're still trying :]

Our job is to teach the children conversational/spoken English while their Chinese English teachers teach them grammar, sentence structure, pronunciation, and spelling. The children attend school from around 7:00am to about 5:30pm. For those who live on campus during the week, class ends later into the evening around 9:30pm. The workload is so huge for these little kids, so we try to make our classes less heavy, i.e. no homework, more singing, word games, etc. All the while helping them improve their spoken English. :]

The children pretty much love us- really. 
Whenever one sees us they'll scream "Wài jiào, Wài jiào!!", which means foreign teacher, and then everyone around will join in with "HELLO!" and "GOOD AFTERNOON!". They are so loving and will give you hugs and kisses if you let them. They absolutely LOVE getting their picture taken and will knock each other over to get into the shot. Michael was saying how its funny that they try so hard to get into a picture that they'll probably never see. Here are some of those pictures :]

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Our trip to China was very long but somewhat eventful.
We first flew to San Fran and once there had a 4 hour layover.
Then we boarded Korean Air (which is now our favorite airline)

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Welcome to our Blog!

We thought we'd do the hip cool thing for newlyweds and create a blog to keep you updated on our crazy shenanigans

. Especially the ones we have whilst on our adventure in China. 

It's been an eventful two weeks here in China. The first week we spent in Beijing acting the tourists part and going to all the historical places. Here is small summary in the form of Instagram pictures. I was unable to post them due to Wifi difficulties (which is pretty disappointing since I love to Instagram so much...oh well). 

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