Training Begins

Tuesday and Wednesday meant training seminars early in the morning.  Our group joined all the volunteers that the Beijing Olympics had brought in for the games at a local hotel, where we were brought up to speed on the type of systems that we are going to using in our venues.  Much of this was discussed in the training lessons before we left for China, but it was nice to be able to ask some questions from our potential bosses.

The real exciting parts of the training came during the lunches, shocking I know.  It was our first chance to get some American food, courtesy of McDonald's.  The second day we tried a pizza buffet, and one of the most glorious things in China was in that buffet.  Not only did it have decent food, it had cold beer, on tap.  I haven't spoken on this matter yet, but we've been working on warm beer here from the first day due to China not being too keen on chilling things and no fridge of our own.  So this beer tap, distributing the coldest beer I've had in weeks, was the greatest thing I could have asked for.  It was glorious.

So now we've moved on to the real work, but the strange thing is we won't actually be working until next week.  We have essentially a week off in China to do whatever we want, which could be a lot of fun.  We've been discussing visiting the Terracotta Soldiers, but as of right now we're not sure what we're going to do, so keep reading.