We arrived in China on July 7th. Thankfully the trip was uneventful. Before we left I was pretty nervous about the 15 hour flight, but it ended up being totally fine. I took a sleeping pill, put on some noise canceling headphones and a sleeping mask and I was out for 9 hours!! No one else was able to sleep well on the plane and they all threatened to steal some of those sleeping pills for the flight home:)
There was only one small hiccup in our travel, but it was soon sorted out. When we arrived to the GZ, China airport we went through customs and as we were about to get our bags checked again we found a sign that had a few names on it. If your name was on this sign you were to go into a different room to be questioned have your bags looked at. Three people from our group had their name on the list: Matt, Cindy and Donny. As they went off to see what this was about, the rest of us sat on benches to wait and pray that nothing was wrong. After they were in the separate room for a few minutes, they were released. Not really sure why their names were on that list, but glad it was nothing. We all had a small fear that customs had found some of the books we had brought with us and didn't like them. We were all relieved when that was not the case.
We were met at the Nanchang Airport by Josh and Ryan. We all piled into 2 vans, along with all our luggage, and braced ourselves for a live game of mario kart. Never in my life have I seen people drive like that or use horns so much. I am not sure why they spent time and money painting stripes on the roads. NO ONE follows them, not even the police!! I wish I would have gotten some good video of it, but I'm pretty sure my mom would have had a heart attack knowing that I was THERE! It was crazy and I am so glad we don't drive like that here in the states.
When we arrived at the golf resort we were welcomed by the staff and a few of the translators who had arrived before us. So much excitement awaited us! We had finally made it!
We spent the rest of the day hanging out with and getting to know everyone else who had arrived. The kids were coming the next day and everyone was excited!
Some people got a little sleep...the rest were super tired! 
Travel from airport to resort...
Travel from airport to resort...
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