I'm Back

We got back from China last night. It's 3:30pm here but my body definitely thinks it's 6am, that's a tad bit annoying. We had a really action packed trip and we never stayed in one place more than a day, except Beijing the last 3 days. We traveled to Beijing and then to a city bordering North Korea and worked with the Korean population for 3 days. Unfortunately, we didn't get to go in to NK. No big surprise there. We were in a town that we could look across the river into NK though and we saw fires where guards were hanging out around the border. Pretty crazy. We returned to Beijing only then to travel west to Lanzhou and lots of small farming villages in Western China that had Tibetan populations. Our guide was actually calling it Tibet, but it was china proper with Tibetan people. I'm kind of confused about where we were...I think maybe it had been Tibet before China took over the country in the 50's or something. Anyway, we worked with many Tibetan peoples and got stared at like we were rock stars because most of them had never seen Western people before-especially not with Blonde hair! One guy almost had a car accident staring at me. It was pretty funny! We ended our trip in Beijing spending time with an orphanage there, some underground seminary students and some sight-seeing. I'm pretty sure I'm in at least 20 random Chinese kids' pictures at the Great Wall because they kept asking me to take a picture with them. It's the blonde hair, but I'd like to think it's because they knew deep inside that I'm a rock star.
I'm keeping it breif for now because I'm a very tired lady, but if you want some extensive details of the trip check out our friend Tom's blog he kept the entire trip - he was willing to pay to use the internet, I, was not. The site is www.tcislost.blogspot.com He'll give you more details than I ever could and maybe more than you even want! Enjoy. I'll be sure to post more details and some photos as I become normal again!