Google Earth

So I don't know if anyone cares, but finally found where I'm living on Google Earth. I'm going to try to post as many of my pictures on there as I can, just because it's cool. I couldn't get the file embed here, but I have a GoogleMaps shot of it, I hope this works:

Click Here!

Mine is the one with the red/brown top in the middle of the picture...

If you're interested in finding it on Google Earth, search for "Grand Gateway, Shanghai, China" and it will take you a little north east (by a few hundred yards) of where I live. There's a few cool pictures that people have taken (XuJiaHui By Night). If you don't have Google Earth, I guess you can see them on Google Maps by clicking on "More" and selecting "Photos." This description is really just for my Mom, since I know everyone else probably knows this already... :)

I'm Here!

Ok, so I'm here... I had a great birthday on the plane, although it was the shortest birthday ever! Maybe I'll try to come back home next year on my birthday so I can celebrate it for longer...

So the one thing I really wanted to talk about is the weather... It's REALLY hot here, check this out:



FEELS LIKE 112!!! And today isn't even humid, only 66%, yesterday it was somewhere around 80%. Now, at home I have AC, so thats great and all, but at work it's pretty miserable. They turn the AC on a little, but not enough to stop sweating... I think it's set at 77 degrees, but as soon as I leave my office area and go into the hall, I immediately start to sweat.

So a funny little story about sweating. Yesterday I walked to work (I didn't know how to tell a taxi driver to get there, so I figured I'd just hoof it), and after an hour and a half of walking I was totally soaked. It started for some reason at the knees, I don't know why, but I guess my knees are sweat makers now. I was wearing these gray pants that really showed it pretty bad, and it seemed like everyone I walked by looked at my knees, but eventually I gave up and hailed a taxi. As I get in the taxi, he looks at me (I'm literally dripping), then my legs (it looked like I fell in a lake) and turns on the AC and points all the jets at me... It was amazing!! He got mad when I couldn't tell him an address, I just pointed and had him drive around while I looked at buildings that I remembered... But eventually I got there!