An exciting and important week so far here. I've made the tough decision to leave the school, and China all together, and head to New Zealand to meet up with with my friend Tevon and join him in working on an organic farm until the end on November. I began to feel at the beginning of last week that things here were not going to work out for me long term; the training was a part of it, but mainly the mental exhaustion and frustration was too much to take. I leave the school tomorrow with Zije, the owner's wife, who will take me to an airport hotel in Wuyishan. On Saturday I will fly to Hong Kong, and then on Sunday to Auckland, where I will stay at a hostel until Tevon arrives on Friday. I should have more details on the farm within the next week. After the month at the farm, Tevon and I will travel to Christchurch to maintian our regularly scheduled programming (meeting up with Chris, Ben, Dante, my Dad and Graham). Thanks to everybody for your support through all of this. I will write again from Auckland.