After cleaning ourselves up at home and washing our clothes we headed for Jiujiang. Here we finally met up with the others, Pete, Henry, Nold, Naomi and Ella, some of which we hadn't seen for a long time. In true gap year fashion we ended up drinking .. well .. a little too much, and the night did end with me collapsing onto the bed. Early morning we woke up, did a bit of shopping then all relaxed in bed together, bidding Ella goodbye as she headed off for her ...

Holidays have started, and it was that time to pack up the bag, turn off everything in the house and lock up the front door to depart for our 7am train. Everything was ready, Me and Cat had done lots of preperations and had our itinerary down, emergency numbers and direction to places. The first hiccup to our trip didn't take long after the trains weren't running that day to go into the city so we had caught a bus (very comfy though) but meant we could of woken u...

The time has come that i can officially celebrate. After all of the other volunteers laughing and making fun that me and Cat still having to work , we are free! It's been a week of mostly games and quizzes for the kids, giving them some relief as they have been working hard but now the real coutndown begins 4 DAYS!! On Wednesday Me, Cat, Dan and Rob are shooting off to Hong Kong to go and do some major shopping, get very drunk and .. maybe see some sights.. We ...

(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...

Merry (late) Christmas everybody! I think that with 3 weeks passing since christmas i should probably get on writing what we did for it. Our plan for christmas was to meet up with all the Jiangxi volunteers (8 of us) as well as meeting Ned's French girlfriend who was coming to visit him for 2 weeks. Lots of preperation was in order and we set out to get everyone the best christmas gifts we could as we knew it would be difficult for all of us being away from ou...