The Orientation Experience - June 30th

The day after we arrived at the Newark Airport we had the wonderful pleasure of sitting through a daylong orientation. The first few hours were a little long, but then I became friends with some really fun people and 5 small groups were formed. Luckily, my group included some of the people I had already begun to become close friends with. In our group, Cheng Dui (橙队), meaning Orange Team, consisted of Shanna, Sydney, Merrick, Catherine, Skyelar (with an E). We learned all about what to expect on the trip and went over all the rules. Which sounds like it would be long and borderline uneventful, and it was, but luckily we had Dr. Chen who is a good storyteller who made it a little more interesting. One interesting thing we did was play charades, and the winning team (us, obviously) got the prize of an 8:10 departure the next morning as opposed to the last place team who was forced to leave the hotel at 6:50.