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First Week In Beijing

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Greetings Everyone, And once again, hello from the other side of the world (for most of you).   However, this time our flight was a relative breeze, as travel time encompassed a mere 24 hours from Lima to Beijing; in our days of living in Dhaka, we could anticipate a minimum of eight more hours of transit, so we felt fresh as a spring shower when we landed in Beijing (okay, a slight exaggeration. . .). Anyhow, I wanted to provide a quick little update on our travels, to verify that we indeed did arrive and to give you a report one week in Beijing.   Firstly, the new jobs-we are just shy of ecstatic that we have landed at this school, Western Academy of Beijing.   From the beautiful campus (photos to follow at a later date) to the vibrant learning community, Marianella and I feel as if we have arrived at a special place to work.   Of course, the honeymoon is early and being the grizzled veterans that we are, we aren’t getting too ahead of ourselves, but we are excited, which i