Completely overwhelming

Wow. There is so much to write about, but so little time...
First, the plane ride was fine. Nothing special. We had our own little screens to watch movies on and play games and everything. I highly reccommend flying in an air bus if you have the chance.
My first night here was great. I was so excited to sleep that nothing could have phased me... not to mention I was practically a zombie after travelling for almost 24 hours. We stayed in a very nice hotel and got up for a 10:00am meeting with the headmasters of the school that we will be teaching in (which is practically right across the street from the hotel).
It's a very nice school. The classes are small and kids sign up to take classes kind of at their whim. It's called Web International English school and I can't believe that they're letting me teach someplace like this! You should check out their website (I haven't yet, but plan to after this post!) http://webi.com.cn
After the meeting, we got to meet our host families. The people I stayed with last night were very very nice, but the whole family is so busy. The father is the president of the bank building in which our school is located. The mother works in a department store, fashion department. The 13 year old son plays soccer and goes to school. Again, they are very sweet people, but because they are so busy, and I would be left alone in their apartment quite often (which is not walking distance from the school), I am going to be staying someplace else. I feel terrible that I have to make the switch so soon, but I was a little frazzled about the whole situation this morning, and Jacky (the Chinese man making all of our arrangements) was very quick to change my arrangements. I think I could have adjusted in time, but I'm still tired and confused about everything. I am going to be staying with one of the other women in our group (who does not have a family at all) in the hotel we stayed in the first night.
Not only am I frazzled about the big changes, but I was also ill from the food. I love it because it tastes so amazing, but my stomach can't handle it yet. And being sick in the little squatter toilets that many places here have is not so much fun. Ick. Last night I ate at this very posh restaurant near West Lake (a famous site in Hangzhou) with the father and son of the family I was with, Molly (a girl from my group), a woman from the father's doctorate class (because she speaks good English), and her driver. I couldn't eat a thing because I was sick from eating too much too fast at lunch! I felt so bad because I had to explain that I like it, but I just don't feel good.... so much explaining and so little understanding. That's the big issue so far. Working on it, though.
After dinner Mr. Zhang (my host father), and Cole (his son) went to a supermarket because they thought I was going to need things like towels, feminine products, etc. I said I had already brought that stuff, so they brought me to the food section of this HUGE, BUSY market. I hardly recognized anything. I said all I really needed was bottled water (you can't drink the water here, or brush your teeth with it, or put in your contacts with it, etc.), but they wanted to buy me things that I could eat for snacks and so on. I saw some of the most interesting things. They bought me potato chips, but the flavors are crazy! They have seaweed flavor and crab meat flavor, mexican meat and tomato flavor... unbelieveable. It's also really scary to have the fish and the meat and everything sitting out like it was. And there were so many people. It was so overwhelming, just like everything else has been so far.
I really am having a good time, it's just so much! I don't want to sound like I'm whining or anything because this is the most fascinating experience. It's still nerve-racking, though, because I have so much more to learn. Stay tuned, everyone. There ought to be more to come when I have breaks from teaching and whatnot. I start in my own classes on Monday!!! Yikes!