Yesterday I had a terrible headache but suffered manfully through my classes before retiring to a darkened room and watching Battle Star Galactica. I thought I had done a good job of hiding my throbbin' noggin but after less than on Cylon attack there was a knock at my door, I opened it to find 15 of students bearing fruit and herbal remedies. Admittedly the last thing I wanted was 15 chinese students (very loud), armloads of bananas (which I hate) and herbal rem...

Ok so I have been bad. The last few weeks have been a mixture of business, sickness and laziness so please forgive me for my absence. Sooooo what have I been doing I hear you ask and the response is a resounding.... not much actually. After the initial flurry of excitement I had at moving to China and settling in I have predominantly focussed on settling in and making myself comfortable. For starters I bought a 360, I tried to resist and couldn't, I then boug...

So I only have one class left and after that I am free for the weekend! And I cannot wait. My classes have been great but teaching is tiring and the heat is exhausting. Today I messed up one of my classes by forgetting to bring the correct document, which led to a moment of pure panic swiftly followed by a genius moment. Wielding my USB pen (mightier than the sword) I plugged it into the computer and turned on Dr. Horribles Sing Along Blog! As you can imagine ...

Ok so this is my second and third class in and so far so good! The second class was a bit of a struggle because their level of English was much lower than I had expected, this made my activities almost impossible and required a lot of improvising. The class was also far less enthusiastic, which I thought was strange because they chose my class, unlike the others which have an English module tied on. However when one of the letters I asked for comes back saying ...

I am now a real Teacher! So I had my first lesson today and have another in about an hour! Wow that was nerve racking. But it was so much fun. I set the class a simple task of writing and introductory letter, describing themselves and their interests, whilst they were doing this I interviewed them one at a time in order to get a handle on their spoken English. My idea was that this would allow me to observe both their spoken and written english in the same ...