Flight Infromation

Hey everyone! We've purchased our plane tickets- finally! We leave August 21st, flying out of Chicago into LA, then we are hopping over to Beijing and finally flying into Nanjing on August 23rd. We will be flying roughly 19 hours total, ugh... at least there are layovers!

Planning and Paperwork...

Hi everyone! I haven't written in a while because there hasn't been anything too exciting to share. Thomas and I are working through tedious (but necessary) paperwork and medical forms as well as planning the details involving moving out of Eau Claire and taking off in August. We are still planning on flying out August 25th and will be buying our plane tickets soon.

We do have some interesting news. Thomas and I have recently acquired a new friend that was introduced to us through one of my good education buddies here in Eau Claire. He is a Chinese foreign exchange student here at UWEC and currently attends college in Nanjing. He is almost done with school here in Eau Claire and plans to move back to Nanjing either in August or December. During one of our big parties/cookouts we sat down with him and discussed traveling to Tibet, attending the Chinese New Year with him family, and the various ins and outs of Nanjing in general. We had a lot of questions for him and he was extremely helpful. We are so fortunate to have met him right before we head out! It is comforting to know that we will have a friend who can actually speak Mandarin and who is willing to put up with us in China. He’s a super nice guy and we really look forward to hanging out and traveling with him in China.

We’ll let you know when we have our plan tickets! Hope everyone is having a fantastic start to their summer… we are going to miss everyone so much! Love you all!