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Well today we awoke to no electricity. In China, you prepay for your electricity. We have been very busy and running fans, air conditioning, computers etc. Sorry Mom & Dad about not being able to talk to you this mornings but no electricity to run the modem. So, we used it up. I gave Nan 300 yuan and decided maybe all we need to run is the fan when we are in the room. I want to get a fan like Nan's. It is small, cheap, puts out a good breeze and uses less electricity. I will look for one this week. Delainie and I went out this morning by ourselves. We were looking for a bakery. We found it but it was not open.

Later we went to the bank to cash a few travelers checks. The bank opened at 9. We were there at 8:30 and the 4th in line. It took us 45 minutes. When you do business at the bank or the phone company you are handed a number and you wait until it is called and you go to you assigned teller. They filled out a mountain of paperwork. Well, maybe not a mountain but 5 different forms that were then checked by two different officials. They then gave us our money. I got enough to last a few weeks and to reimburse Nan. She gave me some money when we got here just in case we needed some right away. She said you can cash your travelers check and reimburse me when we go to the bank. So, I did. I got as little extra because I am going to be teaching soon and want to make sure I have enough to buy our neccesities for the school.