Our New Home in China

We are here! We arrived in Beijing on December 29th, and after only a few days we had already gotten used to being 14 hours ahead of home! (We got to have New Years Day while you guys were still having New Year's Eve!)

J says: "Hi, people! This is J. I'm learning Chinese at school! I've learned about one sentence and six words. I've learned lots more, but that's all I can remember right now. Hello sounds like NEE-how.

These are the things I love about living in China: my new school, and that I have kids in my class from all over the whole world, like from Australia and Korea and England and America and Mexico and Sweden and EVERYWHERE! And my teacher is from Canada. And I love my fancy school bus (that is like a tour bus, not a school bus) and the cool way that the bus door opens, and eating dragon fruit and lots of kiwis (my favorite), and that my neighborhood looks kind of like an American neighborhood. And I love eating Jiaowza, or pot stickers, that my Ayi makes. I also love her Swedish pancakes! I love our Ayi--she comes every day to help my mom clean the house and take care of us kids sometimes. (My mom loves having an Ayi the most.) Those are the things I love for now, and I will keep writing more things as they happen!"

S says: I love my new school (which is the same school as Joseph, and has kids all the way from Preschool to High School), my teacher Miss N, my new church (which is on the 4th floor of a 40 story tall office building) and my new house. But Mrs. S, in Iowa, is still the very best teacher I ever had. But in my new school they even have a swimming pool! Inside the school! It's amazing. And on Wednesdays we can buy popsicles at lunch. Or ice cream. But I can only get popsicles.

I love having a balcony in my very own room, and I love having new friends who live very close by to our house, so I can walk to their house, and I love the playground right across the street from our house. Especially the cool animal merry-go-round.

I miss my friends in Iowa, and if you want to you can send us letters or emails! Or leave us comments on this blog. Or, if you want, you could even call us at our same Iowa phone number and it will call us all the way here in China, for free!



Bye, everyone! Soon we will have lots of pictures of our Chinese New Year carnival and the Temple Fair at Guongdong, and lots of other amazing things!

Bye!
The Meikle Boys.

PS N's favorite things about living in China are playing in the water dispenser and eating all the cool new Chinese fruit.