Wednesday, May 16, 2007

LEAVING ON A JET PLANE

We will be up early tomorrow. Andy has to meet his group at the airport @ 4:30 am for the first leg of the trip to China. I am not sending him off with Ramen Noodles this time. He does have a lot of mosquito repellant and Pepto Bismol, however. The research grant gave him a stipend for food. He was given $128 and is assured by his professor that is more than adequate. Andy is packing light. If he needs more clothes than he brought, it should be cheap to buy them there. They will have laundry done inexpensively. (@ a Chinese laundry!) He will be at a major University in a city of 100,000. I heard some of the particulars at dinner tonight. I imagined it would be more rustic. He says they are housed in double rooms with air conditioning in a building for foreign students. All meals are eaten out so the accommodations are better than he had in London with 14 to a flat and most cooking their own meals. He will be blogging and keeping us up to date on his adventure.

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