你好， Hello :D It's been a while since my previous post, but honestly there hasn't been that much to write about, and this is only going to be a quick filler to let you all know that I am still alive :P The first 3 weeks of this year have absolutely flown by! We've been teaching as usual (well I have, Lucie has been off ill but she is better now and back at work this week) and just using the weekends to relax and plan our next week's lessons. Ben (our call...

新年快乐！(xin nian kuai le!) - Happy New Year! Can you believe it's 2015?! 2014 went by so quickly, and so much happened to me in that year. Exams, last day of 6th year, Prom, fundraising constantly, actually leaving for China! And now, well, now I can say that I will be returning to the UK this year. That's a scary thought! I did create a video of photos of my highlights of 2014, which can be found here: http://youtu.be/xPr-PKNNAoA and I'll also put it i...

圣诞快乐 (sheng dan kuai le) - Merry Christmas! (Yes, I know I'm a day late, it's been a busy week!) But where to begin? Well, I left Yihuang on Saturday afternoon and caught my train to Lanzhou - this train journey took 26 hours and was just ever so slightly boring. Finding my hostel in Lanzhou was a little bit more interesting though. I arrived in Lanzhou at around 6.25pm on Sunday, but didn't get to my hostel until just after 8pm! It was a little bit har...

你好， I cannot believe we are halfway through December! And we are now 1/3 of the way through our time in China :D Since I have turned 18, Lucie and I have noticed that we seem to get invited to more places, and we're beginning to wonder if it is the age thing. The first weekend in December we went strawberry and orange picking with some of the English teachers of Senior 2. Yes! Strawberry picking! In December!! We ended up going home with 2 carrier bags fu...

你好， It's the 30th of November - I made it!! A blog post every day (though not always on time, apologies for that), some long, some short, some interesting, some mundane, but still one for every day! This last day of November has been one of the more mundane days - lesson planning. This week I am going to be getting my pupils to write letters to pupils at Largs Academy (my high school in Scotland) as my amazing Geography teachers (shout out to Mr Turbet!)...