Hello! I realise I havent written anything for a while. Dont worry, not that you are, but I have been busy, not just too lazy to write, but actually busy :) Also I have already written this blog once today, but the website lost it. Not the best way to start writing again. A lot has happened since Hong Kong. I have returned to Fuzhou with a new determination to explore the city and the country. To not let other people stand in my way of that, or to spoil my enjo...

So whilst this blog says I am writing about Fuzhou, I really am not. I am writing about Xiamen, south of Fuzhou by 100 or so miles. A group of seven teachers decided to go for our two day weekend, coming back the third day before work. That gave us plenty of time to explore Xiamen (though ended up missing a lot of it - so a return journey is essential ) and also to organise it. We booked our Hostel, and our train tickets prior to departure, which was on Monday a...

Each time I write a blog, limited as they are, I alwasy struggle as to where to start. I feel I should start with the 'school trip'. This phrase conjures up a number of ghastly images, and sensations, then followed by a little bit of nausea, finally followed by nostalgia. 'School trips' were inevitable. You would get excited about them for weeks prior to actually going, then on the morning you were frantically trying to remember everything, and then you get there...

Another week has gone past and I have officially been in Fuzhou for two weeks and 2 days now! Sometimes it feels like time is going past so slowly, and then other days it feels like it is flying past! for what I have experienced and seen, it doesnt seem possible in two weeks, but then the time that I start and finish work makes it feel longer. It is hard to describe. Anyway, so I have started teaching, and as of this week I have 4 classes, so teach 8 lessons per...

So much happens in one day it is hard to recall everything. I have Monday and Tuesday off of work, rather than the weekend, when I actually have to work 8 hour days :( Everyone please feel sorry for me. So on Monday we decide to go somewhere or do something. We settle on Forest Park. I have never taken the bus before in Fuzhou, so that was the first first of the day. It is a cheap and interesting mode of transport. No AC, people crowded in, and everyone inevitab...