6 Days Until Kung Fu Panda City

Only 6 days remain until I leave for China! I will be staying with a host family and attending school daily to study Chinese for six weeks, via the NSLI-Y program, which offers full scholarships to students to learn less-commonly studied foreign languages overseas.  I am unrestrainedly hyped as I have been preparing for this trip since last October.  As of now, I know I will be living in Chengdu with 14 million of my closest friends (almost double the size of New York), but I still have no idea in whose home I will be living.

My white board as I study characters so I won't totally be confounded