Both Ella and Nicole have their birthday in November so we thought that whilst me and Cat had three days off for exams we could travel up to Jiujiang and see the girls, celebrate and stay for 5 days, wednesday - sunday. The boys Rob, Dan, Ned and Matt managed to get the days off too so it was all Jiangxi volunteers reuniting for 5 days.. I COULD NOT WAIT! It's difficult for us all to meet up as Ella and Nicole as it is further away unlike us other 3 projects who ...

So much has happened in the little time that i have blogged, i have a lot to fill everyone in. Since my last blog i celebrated halloween with my classes and took part in their sports day.. all which caused many funny and dramatic stories Firstly, in the week of halloween i decided to celebrate with my kids as they do not celebrate it here. Most of them had heard of it but not of the extent that many people can go to on halloween. They were amazed when i showed t...

The weekend after the boys was back to teaching. Lessons were back to normal and within the week there was not really that much to report on. The damp in our living room has grown even worse and it still seems that not much is being done about it.. luckily our desk officier David is coming in a month so at worse we can talk to him about sorting it out. Got invited to a party one day, we were so tired this day so only went for an hour which involved a small banque...

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, ...

We got onto the train and found seats all in our carriage, result. We all jumped into some seats, relieved that we would be getting seats for the 9 hour train journey and it must just be a first come first serve basis. Oh, then we noticed the seat numbers on the wall and when confused looking chinese people came up to us with their tickets we quickly moved and stood in the aisle. As the train set of we managed to steal a empty seat and when Catherine sat on the f...