你好， Today has been an interesting day. During the week Sophia invited us to lunch today to celebrate her family moving in to a new apartment. We of course accepted. We bought a box of chocolates (thought is was a safe option as not sure on the gift customs in China) and made our way to the restaurant that Sophia had told us about for 12noon. We arrived and found ourselves sat at a table with nobody we knew, but we smiled and accepted the toasts made to ...

你好， Well... that was... awkward. On a Friday I teach 3 classes, classes 5, 13 and 1. I have Class 1 last period, and as I walked into class I realised that all the pupils had their heads bent over papers and another teacher was sitting at the desk! Being shooed out of class I had nothing else to do so I headed home. And here I am typing my blog :P Apparently Tony, who is head of Senior 1 English was supposed to have told me that my class was being used ...

你好， Just another ordinary day. And you know, it's these days that we'll forget, but it's these days that are the reason why we are here. Teaching the kids English, cooking for lunch and dinner, going for a walk in the evenings - just living in China. Anyways... (that was a bit deeper than I intended...) Lucie and I have been invited to a big banquet lunch on Saturday by Sophia. It is to celebrate her family moving in to their new apartment, and apparentl...

你好， Today we have been discusing our plans for Christmas We are 3 more weeks of teaching (after this one) and then it's the week of Christmas. We were told we would get the 24th,25th,26th off (plus the weekend as usual) but I asked and managed to get the 22nd and 23rd off too! So the plan? Travel to Gansu and spend the week with the 6 vols in that province. It's a 25hr train journey there, and a 26hr train journey back, so that's the weekends gone. But ...

你好， Just another ordinary day for us today. I teach 4 classes on a Tuesday and this week I am teaching them holidays vocabulary - different countries, different types of transport and how to book tickets for travelling. As usualy some classes are more enthusiastic than others. I have found that I seem to be sleeping a lot recently - and more noticably, during the day. This is strange as I don't sleep well usually, and I like never slept during the day i...