The First Best Day of the Summer.

I got what is basically my first job offer today. If I go for it, I'll end up working at Wuchang Experimental Primary School. I'm kind of apprehensive about the thought of teaching five, six, and seven year olds, but everyone tells me that I'm good with kids. I'm more than happy to teach them, but the closer I get to going to China the more nervous I get about how well I'll do. I dunno. I asked my placement adviser if there was anything closer to high school level. I think I'd have an easier time teaching that age group.

I've been on Google Earth for about an hour now. I'm not sure where in Wuhan the school is, but I've been looking at a lot of pictures of the surrounding area. It's a very nice looking city. Wikipedia has also been helpful. Because of it, I now know that the city of Wuhan ALONE has about 8 times as many people as my entire STATE! Thats right. One city has more people than all of West Virginia. That's rather daunting.

So far today, I've come up with two new frightening realizations.
1. I'm going to have to learn the metric system. This isn't much of a big deal, but it's just one more thing that I'll have to memorize.
2. Wuhan is probably the hottest city in China. The average temperature in July is about 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Being a port city, I bet it's also very humid. I don't mind the sticky feeling, but I always feel like other people know I'm sticky and that creeps me out.
3. (Yes, another) I'm going to be in Costa Rica for two weeks this summer. Unless I stop off at net-cafes or something, I may have trouble getting some things set up. Oh well. I'll deal with that when I get to that.

Now that things are happening again, I can start updating more often. Joy!