Dropped into the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube on our first day in Beijing. It seemed appropriate as our new adventure involves a job working in the Athletes Village for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. I start on August 10 and will be let go mid April. I had not planned to work in facilities ever again, but this is an opportunity that I cannot let go by. It means delaying our return to China by a year but it is an experience that will be just as exciting and mind boggling as our past year has been. Nonie and I plan to rent a nice condo in downtown Vancouver for the time we are there. Close to work and all the good (and bad) things that Vancouver has to offer. You are all welcome to visit us if you get the notion.
We spent our last day in Beijing with our friend Chao. We met Chao in our first few weeks in Harbin. He was hanging out in the hall outside my classroom. He was looking for some help to polish his English on his resume he was making for grant applications to US universities. We took the project on and happy to say he was accepted with a full scholarship to Texas A & M starting this fall. We hope to see him some time in Vancouver if he can fit it in.
We depart for Mongolia on Tuesday July 6th. Getting excited.
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