New site/new toilet

Well, I am at my site, and I am so happy I could just sh**. Literally, because I have a Western toilet. Now this might not seem like much to be happy about, something you all take for granted, and so did I. But after six weeks of squatting, it was quite a relief to finally attend to nature's business in a position wherein you could read a magazine, or juggle if you want to. Of course, you could do either activity in the squat position, but you'd have to be really talented. But I digress.

I am at Sichuan Normal University in Chengdu. "Normal" simply means "Teachers College" and SNU is the main teaching training campus for the entire Sichuan province. I will post the English web site below and hope you can follow the link. If not you can copy and paste. If not, don't worry about it. I am supposed to be familiarizing myself with my campus and its surroundings, but yesterday I met with people and today I took the bus into the downtown to do shopping to try to get my place in shape. So perhaps I'll have more information about the area tomorrow There is a track just about a quarter mile from my apartment where I ran this morning, and we had this huge rainstorm last night which cooled everything down so that it was almost chilly this morning (almost), but it soon returned to damn hot by this afternoon. We''ll see what tomorrow brings. Anyway, the web site is listed below. Zai Jian.

http://web.sicnu.edu.cn/en/AboutSNU_1.html