Kuok. Kuok. Kuok.

Orientation time.

So our day began by going to HR and filling out a bunch of paperwork. SO EXCITING :P

After, we went to this sweet banquet with fruit, pastries, tea, and coffee which was fantastic because we hadn't had breakfast and none of us can go more than two hours without eating #WeLikeFood Basically we went through what we'll be doing for the next six months and met a lot of the staff that we'll be working with so that was nice :) 

Then came lunch. It had been a good 2 and a 1/2 hours since we at so luckily lunch was good. We ate at the staff cafeteria, had some rice (obvi) some spinach, beef, eggs, standard stuff haha AND GUESS WHAT FOLKS?!! I used chopsticks!!!! I think it might have been a fluke, but guess we'll see. #ImAChild

Thennnn was the boring handbook information where all of us girls began laughing uncontrollably. Let me explain: Rene (Senior Training Manager) was telling us about the history of Shangri-La and apparently one of the people's name is Mr. Kuok. Now I know many of you are thinking Kuok is pronounced Koo-oak, well that would be incorrect. It's pronounced, excuse my language, cock. Yes, you read that right. So Rene kept saying his name, and because us girls are still children we began laughing uncontrollably and tried to hide it, but it most certainly did not work and we just bursted out laughing and then had to explain what cock means in English. (We make a great impressions hahahah) After to Kuok incident, not much else happened other than standard mission, philosophy, vision, and guideline rules.

Once we got back from orientation we knew we had to go outside and "explore" since we've been inside all day, however it was getting dark and we didn't want to walk around China in the dark on the 3rd day we're here. So we tried to take one of Chris' suggestions for a restaurant to eat at but when we got there it looked expensive so we ended up goin to the Bellagio for dinner. No, not the casino, a taiwanese- style restaurant. After much language barrier problems (I mean a lot, we need to learn to be good at charades haha), we ordered dinner and it was out in like ten minutes and it was delicious! Oh, our version of exploring was going to the restaurant, which is one block away from the hotel, and then went to this little grocery store to grab something for breakfast tomorrow since we still haven't gone to the supermarket yet.

Anyways, day two of orientation begins tomorrow!!!