Boxes, Shipped, Gone

Yesterday, Katie and I packed and sent all of our stuff to Yunnan. Thanks so so much to Shorel and Sandra and to Amy and Beth for all their help (I don't know what we would have done without you all)!!! We shipped 22 boxes, bags, suitcases and plastic tote bags full of stuff. We also have a whole room in our house full of stuff to give away. So much stuff after nearly 5 years of living in Yichang. Yesterday was such a long day of packing! It started at 6 a.m. with friends arriving early to help us send Marty and Selena's stuff to another place in China via train. Then we moved Katie's and my stuff in the afternoon. But the stuff is gone and I'm glad. Sending everything cost us 850 yuan (US$125 ) The movers came and helped us seal up the boxes, carried it out our front door into a van, and it will arrive in our new city of Mengzi four days from now and be waiting for us when we get there in August. Pretty good deal thanks to getting a discounted student rate since we live on campus and EMS is running specials for the students who are going home. Now there's just some cleaning left, giving away the leftover, unwanted stuff to the recyclers, arranging my suitcase to go home, and other miscellaneous errands to take care of today. Now that the stuff's gone, I'm really ready to just be home. I will miss this apartment though! I've really loved my home for the past two years.