我很累

很累：Super Tired. Finally figured out how to get my internet up and running here which took a good deal of time since I had to reeducate myself on the wonderful world of ethernets. As the post title suggests though its been a long trip over. I can't even tell you how long the trip was though, because halfway through my flight a combination of the nyquil and the oxygen rich plane air transported me to an alice and wonderland-esque dream world. An unspecified number of hours and over 1700 miles later (feel free to check the math their the flight attendants announced the distance in Chinese) I finally arrived in Beijing. 

A shuttle bus brought a group of us from the airport to the university at around 6:30. I was quickly given my room assignment, told to put my stuff away, and to meet the group in the lobby for dinner. I got some sweet digs. My roomate Brian and I have our own bathroom, TV (channels CCTV1-15 which sadly don't include Phineas and Ferb), and even a balcony for tea and laundry (no kenmore elite washer/dryers over here but as long as I don't smell I'll manage just fine). We proceeded to dinner and thats when I died. 

The food was actually great especially compared to the microwaved mush Air Canada served me (got to put a plug in there incase they're one of my tens of followers). It had a lot of hot peppers in it which I love so I was totes down for that. Not a lot of meat but thats fine because at dinner tonight I saw what my have been fried chicken feet so I can deal with a vegetarian diet for now. The death came when I suddenly came to the realization that everyone here speaks Chinese. That's a lot of Chinese in one city I'll tell you that much and can quickly induce a headache and brain overload. 

Afterwards I came back to my room and began to study for my 8am placement test (classic Chinese class) and my roommate and I both passed out while studying #nerdswag.  

After the placement test we got to go on an adventure of our choosing which for most people meant sleep. However, obviously I'm too hipster to be mainstream (shout out to my roomate brendydood for making me a hipster) so we gathered a group and walked the 1.5 miles to the Olympic Park. Totally cool and worthy of another blog post on its own, but I'll go back and explore it more since we had to scram early since I thunderstorm struck out of nowhere, so I can do it than. We ran to the nearest bus stop and preceded to try and ask how to get back to the dorm (my broken Chinese plus a bus system that would make any public transit tremble in its awesome might made for a few headaches but we succeed in our journey home in time for a quick nap and dinner. Needless to say its been a long and exciting few days but I'm loving it so far and should have some great stories in the future. As of right now all I can manage is “我很累！”