Well, it's about 9am in the morning here and I'm assuming, if everything went well at the airport, that the group is complete! We have all 12 people and are ready to go. Today we are going to meet up with C.P. Chou, the head of the Princeton in Beijing program, to discuss what it is like running a language school and how to motivate students. Yesterday we went to the Forbidden city and Tiananmen Square, then met Logan Li, a Beijing University student who is going to be volunteering with us. Rock out. Thank you Logan. Rory wants to call him "Wolverine" because everyone here has a nickname, which I will list out below, but I really feel that this particular name is not fitting for Logan. Here's the thing. You can't plan out a nickname, they just happen and you have to embrace that. Dinner with Logan was followed by watching the disappointing US soccer game. For your reference, here are the current nicknames:
Jean - Jean Machine
Rory- Rorysaince
Francine - Laffy Taffy
Dan - The Hawk
Turco- Turco
Lisa - Lisa Kelley (brilliant, no?)
James- Hammsterdam
Ashley - A.J.
Chris - Schlegel
Mike - The Manamal (a very new one)
Leslie - L$
Betty - ...(Let's talk about this later)