Friday, August 25, 2006

4 days 22.5 hours

I'm getting more and more excited about leaving. I'm getting emails about traveling, packing up my suitcases, getting my textbooks, repacking my suitcases... and it all makes me more and more anxious to leave.

I'm not really looking forward to being in a plane for 17 hours, but I figure it's a small sacrifice to make for seeing the other side of the planet.

Speaking of being on the other side of the world, Beijing is GMT +8, while EST time (Grand Rapids) is GMT -5. What that means is when it is 10:30am in Grand Rapids on August 25th, it's 10:30pm in Beijing on August 25th. When it is 7:00 pm on August 25th in Grand Rapids, it will be 7:00am on August 26th in Beijing. The whole time zone thing is kind of crazy when you think about it.

1 comment:

Sara R. said...

The time stamp thing is 3 hours off, but I think I fixed it for now. Unfortunantly it doesn't update my old posts.