Day Thirteen

I am now in Chengdu,China! This morning we packed up and left to the airport at 9am. The flight left at 11:30am and it took just over two hours. Our friends from the Chengdu CDC met us with smiles...and two minivans for our luggage. We arrived at our hotel, the Crown Plaza, around 3:30pm.

When we got to the hotel we walked around and got a quick bite at a fast food restaurant down the street called Dico's (kind of like KFC). After lunch we came back and napped.

Around five o'clock we prepared ourselves for a focus group training session. A group of Chinese students from Washi University (in China) met up for the meeting. The meeting lasted about an hour and a half and we discussed what we will be doing tomorrow, (mainly interviewing high school students to evaluate the anti-tobacco program developed by the USC China Seven Cities Study).

Once we finished our training session we had a bite to eat. We also jumped in the pool for a little. Tomorrow will probably be a long day. Good night/morning!