(Another late one) HAPPY NEW YEAR - 2013 Unlike christmas, new year is celebrated in China too with a big meal with your family and maybe a small party which some of the classes had. We were invited to 2 classes for new year but could only attend 1 for half an hour as we had to run off to catch a bus to go to Yihuang and see the boys. We were welcomed with screams into the senior 3 class (Year 11) and given lots of food, taken photos with and made to sing (ye...

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first - William Shakespeare It was time to get back into the swing of teaching, lessons all planned and ready to go. The news that we had 2 more days off as the kids had exams was SOO GOOD. I can't even remember what we did, sat in and got very bored on our laptops. I discovered a website where i can watch all gossip girl series 1 - 6 at ease, to say the least me and Catherine rarely socialise anymore, headphones in, ...