3Q (Thank you)- a China blog

So me and the kids finally got our passports and residence permits back, so of COURSE the first opportunity had we checked out Hong Kong. Guys. You really should go! Our bus was scheduled to leave at 1245pm, so we left the house about a little after 11 (maybe 1130), took a didi (uber) over to the bus station, and it was PACKED. Keith had gone to hong kong the week before to see a movie, so we were going off his expectations on how long it was going to take to get on the bus but we cut it REALLY close.  Before you can head to the bus terminal itself, you have to go through customs both for mainland China and "special administration region" Hong Kong (I was very clear about this distinction with the children). Of course, it being Dragon Boat festival weekend, there were way more people than we were expecting, and it took about an hour to get through customs/immigration. We made it through at 1240 and booked it toward the terminal. When we get there, the bus was mostly loaded an

We've been in china for a little over a month now, and we're finally (sort of) settling into a rhythm of our days. (NERD NOTE: Sorry for the wait on this post, Diablo IV came out and I spent about a week playing it - playing on the PS5 is fine (I've learned how to use a controller) but the server lag is pretty bad, and I'm connecting using an alternate DNS (open to recommendations) which I think is attributing to the lag being so bad. I'm hoping in the next few weeks it'll sort it self out. The game basically becomes unplayable after about 10pm our time so I haven't gotten to do as much as I normally would, but looking forward to season 1!) Unfortunately, (I may have already said this at some point) we got here too late in the school year to reasonably have them finish out the curriculum, but they're going to take the entrance exams in august to start at Keith's school, which is called the Huitong/Whittle School. It doesn't currently have an IEP