We've arrived! For a trip halfway around the world we couldn't have asked for smoother traveling. No delayed flights, no missed connections, no lost luggage. The worst I can say is that United's food was mediocre at best.

We were met at the airport around midnight by the school superintendent and the administrative assistant and dropped off at our new apartment. They couldn't have been nicer. We learned just enough to know how to get around in the apartment and then they left us to settle in.

This is our living room. The apartment includes 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a galley kitchen. The "laundry room" is a little porch with the washer, dryer (!) and clothes lines for hanging out the wash. Given the humidity I can't believe anything could possibly dry outside right now.

We also have a balcony off of the living room. It faces directly east. Here's the view:

There's a park and a middle school across the street from us. You can see the track off on the left. We're on the 10th floor of a 19 floor building. I haven't had a chance to look around in the lobby yet but it looked pretty impressive last night.

I was quite pleased with myself when I figured out how to read the toilet flusher:

The character on the left means small and the character on the right means big. The rest is self-explanatory.

The taxi is picking us up in a half hour and we're off to see the school and our new city.