So today was our last day of lessons and our last day in the Hotel and Mike wasn't with us as he had some meeting to attend to. After checking out of the Hotel in the morning, we went to school for the last time. It was actually kind of sad to leave Iris and Harry because they had looked after us for most of the week. So at lunch i gave a little Thank You speech and gave them a present each. Thankfully they understood me even though i had a bad throat. Aft...

So it's official I have been here for a week already! It feels like longer! It's been one hell of an experience so far and were only getting started! So after waking up this morning I have realised that Yesterday afternoon really wasn't a good idea. My ankle was killing and swollen again. And the worst thing was i had acquired a horrible cold and had been up most of the night coughing! So it would seem i have been quite unlucky, but refuse to see the bad side ...

So after 6 days in China, i manage to end up in the hospital. Needless to say, i'm the only one who could do that. haha Anyway mike picked me up from school and we made our way across town to a hospital. We tried a local one first because it was cheaper to register etc… but they wouldn't see foreigners. So after spending a good 10 minutes trying to flag down a taxi with Mike, we eventually made our way (slowly) to a bigger hospital up the road. If you think rus...

It was extremely hard to wake up this morning, but its a good job we did! We went down for breakfast agin, which consisted of us eating the equivalent to bread again… Nobody had told us weather the school were picking us up or if we were walking over by ourselves. A small group of us gathered at 8:15 but nobody was there to pick us up so we decided to walk. We thought the rest of the group had gone already because nobody was answering their doors. Turns out the...

So today was the start of our Mandarin lessons in a Beijing high school. The hotel provided breakfast for us, but it was exactly the same as what we eat for dinner and tea, with the exception of sweet bread. So we just had the bread for breakfast. We were up early as well as lessons started at 8:15 am. So all of us were extremely tired and grumpy and really didn't feel like going. My ankle was swollen like a balloon too when I woke up, so I really wasn't in a goo...