We begin another week, counting down the days until Judy’s BISS Spring Break.  It’s three weeks until we travel to Hong Kong.  I need to make plans for our tours and exactly what we’re going to see and do.  I’m waiting on our new credit cards to arrive before I do much planning.  I hope we don’t have a “China” experience getting them delivered to Judy’s school.  We have three weeks to solve any delivery issues.

Monday is now Judy’s busiest day at school.  She has a full day of classes, with no break.  When she gets home, she’s tired, but the day went well.  Knowing what she was facing, she was prepared, and never looked up until it was over.  She crashed on the couch when she got home.

My non-school days have settled into a schedule of watching the Beijing CCTV news, writing blog entries, organizing and developing ideas for my classes, and swim sessions.  There is one CCTV channel that is in English, and right now there is a lot of discussion about the big meetings taking place in town, and what is being accomplished.  Corruption in government is a huge issue, and how it is being attacked.  They seem to be serious about solving it, but I’m not sure how it’s going to get done without a truly “free” press, in this one-party system. 

Occasionally I get a chance to watch an NBA game on the CCTV sports channel.  It’s in Chinese, so it’s fun trying to figure out what they’re saying with all the dunks, assists, etc.  The most common sports they broadcast are table tennis, badminton, volleyball, and the Chinese pro basketball teams.