I'm in Beijing, writing this in an Internet cafe that charges 20 kuai per hour. So I'll keep this short but sweet:

-- My family is in Beijing safely, and they love China.
-- I had a wonderful last two days with my students.
-- One of my classes gave me a shirt that is simultaneously the cutest and ugliest thing I have seen in my life. 
-- Nevertheless, it is what I will be wearing when I get off the plane in Los Angeles.
-- I arrived at the airport in Changsha literally two seconds before the plane started boarding because Mr. Liu insisted on stopping for breakfast and the highway was blocked.
-- The plane ended up being delayed by two hours, which we didn't find out until we'd been sitting on the plane for an hour.
-- Yahoo! mail became unblocked a few hours after I wrote that last post. Clearly it was the international pressure started by this blog that forced the government to change their minds.
-- I frightened my brother with my bargaining skills today.
-- We climbed the Great Wall today as rain fell and thunder boomed around us. Fortunately there was no lightning. So now, according to Mao Zedong, we are all real men.