Hello All, I have officially landed! My flight out of the Canada from Toronto to Shanghai was delayed for almost 6 hours, so my contact in Hangzhou, Crace, and I spent the night at Super 8 in Shanghai! Yup...I guess they have those everywhere! :-) We then woke up very early Friday morning (September 2nd), took the subway for 1.5 hours to get to the high speed train and arrived in Hangzhou around 10am. We spent the rest of the day applying for residency with the police, opening a Chinese bank account and having the locks to my apartment changed. My apartment is not on campus but it is huge--I can honestly say that it is the biggest apartment I have ever lived in. I think it is simply beautiful. I have a huge queen/king sized
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