On March 6, we received an email from BYU. It started with the sentence, "You have been recommended by Brigham Young University's China Teachers Program to teach at Shandong Normal University in Jinan, China, for the academic year 2009-2010." The email went on to say that our application had been sent to the University for their review. It said we would most likely receive a response by the end of March.

We were really excited. We quickly looked up all the information we could find about the university, the city and provence where it is located. The city has about 6,000,000 people. The university has 29,000 full time students.

On March 7, we received an email from BYU saying we had been accepted by Shandong Normal University. Boy, was that fast. Now we are really excited. BYU told us to email the university and let them know that we would be coming. They also gave us the names of the couples currently teaching at the university so we could email them and get information on what we will be doing.