Leaving Yougzhou and going to Yangxian

Sorry I havent been keeping up with my blog, its been kinda crazy over here. Let me start by saying that we got pulled from our school in Yougzhou and are in a new city called Yangxian. Our company felt that we were not being taken cared of enough and our requests for simple things were not being fufilled. We are now roughly 3 hours away from Xian in northern China. The weather here is much more my style, cooler, so that is a major plus. We are closer to more foreign teachers in neigboring towns and closer to a bigger city. The town itself is small, roughly the size of Winona and/or Rushford, which is kinda a drag. The people here are really nice and helpful. The apartments are brand new and we are the first foreign teachers. They have already done more for us in the first week, then our previous school did in a month. I am teaching primary which is different. 1st thru 6th graders. It is definetly a change. They are interested in learning though and I have a Chinese translator in each class which is very helpfull. Im still getting adjusted though. The food here is different as well. No more really spicy food which is great for me. We do however miss our fresh vegetables which were a staple in our everyday meals in the south. We did have success however when we went tothe supermarket and found frozen boneless, skinless chicken breasts!! Felt almost like home!! The school gave us two bikes. That was an adventure in itself seeing i hadnt ridden a bike in twenty years! But it is really convienent even if we have to make 2 trips to the supermarket to get our groceries home! All in all I am enjoying my new town and apartment, and am glad that we got pulled and put here.