Training Time

I graduated training! After 4 long days of lecture and practice our group finished our Disney English curriculum training.  For our last observation my assistant and I created a pretty awesome lesson and the person evaluating us said it was by far the best lesson hes seen from anyone in training..not that i should expect anything less cause i am pretty awesome...After training a few us of went to a place called lily's diner. A little American food place with 6 tables. It was like being back in the states. they had dr. pepper, fajita's, pizza, burgers and the specials for the day. I prob wont be living close to it, but it is def my favorite place so far. Other than that i havent had any weird foods yet..im still shy!

Saturday I took the subway to see a friend who had to work.We did some shopping went to H&M and found some new store which i love called "Uniqlo". It was fun seeing all the American stores and they have orange Julius, cold stone, Starbucks, auntie ann pretzels and lots of other U.S stores. The malls are different there like 6 plus levels but the levels are long and the stores seemed very small in comparison to the size of stores in the U.S. After that we decided to find the apt my friend was moving into. she wanted to take the subway (as she didn't exactly know how to walk there from the mall) I insisted we walk and just try to find it... Ending walking all over her neighborood getting lost for well over an hour, but got to see stuff i hadn't yet. People selling huge slices of melon on skewers like Popsicles, people playing Chinese checkers on the street, street vendors and other interesting things. After using our superb Chinese pointing skills we found our way. Pretty good adventure. and thats not including our adventure in trying to find out how to turn on the electricity with people who spoke no English!

I think its a big karaoke place?

Whats next? Hopefully exploring more today.We have Disney orientation training mon/tue then Wednesday some big wigs are coming to town. rumor has it there taking all of the Beijing staff to the Great Wall to do some team building competition..needless to say im pretty excited! Hopefully i can start my apt search also and find a place to live so you all can start sending me care packages!
Important survival chinese words i am trying to learn:
water: shui
cold: liang de
(it impossible to find ice..so water is usually warm unless you ask for a cold one)
chicken: jirou
subway:ditie

XAIJIAN FOR NOW!