So sleepy

So here is my first post from China! I have not slept in over 24 hours and am quite out of it. I just came back from dinner and it is 9 PM here. After this post, I am going to bed.

Where to begin . . . Kurt drove me to Newark Airport in a flash, for some odd reason no one was on the roads in NYC during rush hour. There was a Black History Month fashion show in the terminal and they were blasting music, it was very strange. Met up with Alex and I managed to steal her away from her exit row and into a row with me. My plan had been that one of us would get the window and one of us would get the aisle, so we could get the best of both worlds. Unfortunately our row was the one row on the entire plane without windows! So we had to get up if we wanted to get a glimpse of our current location. When we did get to see the view, it was pretty sweet. We flew over the north pole and saw some rather cool ice formations. The weirdest thing was not having night. We went straight from sunset to sunrise. Eternal dusk or Eternal dawn, take your pick. Food on the plane was pretty foul. They fooled us into thinking it might be good by handing out fancy menus. It was the kind of food that does not taste how it smells.

After 13 hours of trying to sleep and shifting around, we made it to Beijing. First thing that I noticed after we picked up our luggage was a Starbucks. Aye! Oh yeah, and KFC too. Bleh.

Made it to the apartment which is nice, I will be living with Alex and two of her friends. I am in a room that has a piano in it. Along with a piano I have a tiny mattress that was supposed to go on a bed frame, however the frame is missing screws, so at least for tonight, I am sleeping on a mattress on the floor. I think I might keep it this way. The lightbulbs in my room are out and I have no closets or dressers. So . . . it will be interesting. Hopefully tomorrow I will get some of this taken care of. However, I kind of like the minimalism of a mattress and candlelight. It just might work.

I also got a cellphone today and you get a card with the phone number on it that has directions. One of the directions is: "Please recharge your SIM card before the last first using time." If you can figure out that the means, I will buy you a chocolate bar.

Anyway, I am going to try to sleep now. There is some weird music playing outside, hopefully it will stop soon. I already miss everyone back home, hope you are all well.