Explorations I have spent the majority of yesterday wandering around and exploring Jiujiang. The city is completely baffling with no obvious centre and several clusters of high end shops throughout that serve as mini city-centres to their respective neighbourhoods. As a result the city feels very patchwork, some parts are incredibly beautiful and well maintained and others feel somewhat downtrodden and dirty, whilst this is similar in all cities the fact tha...

Day One Day one began with the unwelcome sound of my alarm. It was 09.30 but my body was confused from the flying and sickness and rebelled against my urging to get it into the shower. After emerging from my bed I enjoyed a shower in my super futuristic shower that squirted me from all directions and sang to me! This cheered me up no end! After this I used my cut throat razor (gift from Megan) for the first time and found it easier than I expected. Then I w...

As many of you may know I was deeply concerned about the possibility of the University being a Sh*thole after hearing so many horror stories about Chinese Universities. Well I am pleased to say that my fears were completely unfounded. The University is beautiful, there are gardens everywhere, lots of benches for chilling, cafes and things like that. The Students all seem nice and loads of them keep wandering over to talk to me, those that don't seem to just h...

As many of you may know I was deeply concerned about the possibility of the University being a Sh*thole after hearing so many horror stories about Chinese Universities. Well I am pleased to say that my fears were completely unfounded. The University is beautiful, there are gardens everywhere, lots of benches for chilling, cafes and things like that. The Students all seem nice and loads of them keep wandering over to talk to me, those that don't seem to just h...

The Journey!! Ok so the journey here was a nightmare. Chinese airports whilst very pretty are linoleum warrens of strip lighting and poor signposting. The staff are robotic at best and English voices seem to put them into shutdown! The lowest point was definately the 8 hour flight between Amsterdam and Beijing on which I was kindly given an aisle seat by a helpful Aberdonian who failed to mention that the aisle seat had zero leg space due to poor construction...