I made it to the school yesterday after a full day of travel. Phew. Got up this morning and met the four students remaining from before, and went into the nearest town, Taining, and got a massage (for 28 yuan, about 4 dollars) and looked around shops. While waiting for a taxi in the lobby of the local Holiday Inn, a Chinese family offered us fruit and then and had us sit down for tea with them (using the hotel lobby tea set). We talked for about an hour, using a Chinese phrase-book to get our points across, and probably went though about a pint of green tea each. What and experience! The town is rather remote and we were the only Westerners for many, many miles, and were stared at wherever we went. We took pictures with a number of families, and recieved a nice "Welcome to china!" from a Chinese mother with her kids. I think things are going to turn out alright here.