Today was my first and last day at the other kindergarten. My boss had a friend who also runs a kindergarten not too far away and had promised to lend me for one afternoon a week. I was picked up by the principle, Annie, and taken to her place. It was about half an hour’s drive in the direction of the painting street, she was very impressed with my knowledge of where I was when I pointed it out. It turned out her mother lives on painting street and she grew up ...

Today was my first and last day at the other kindergarten. My boss had a friend who also runs a kindergarten not too far away and had promised to lend me for one afternoon a week. I was picked up by the principle, Annie, and taken to her place. It was about half an hour's drive in the direction of the painting street, she was very impressed with my knowledge of where I was when I pointed it out. It turned out her mother lives on painting street and she grew up th...

Today we decided that as it was the last Saturday we would be in Suzhou and it was close to Kelly’s and my birthday’s we would have a birthday party. I had to work and so did Paul and Kelly so, on my lunch break, I popped out to try and find Kelly a present. I had seen a little shop inside the Tesco at the end of my road by work (Yushan Lu – Amber Mountain Road) that sold lovely hair things so I went in to see what was what. I found out that if you bought o...

Today was meant to be my day off, but as I was off sick for a day last week they asked me to work. I told them I was busy in the afternoon but I could work for half a day and I would leave half a days pay. I don’t think his is correct and I should have been able to take a day’s sick leave especially as I had a contagious stomach bug, so if I had gone in I would have undoubtedly given it to someone as well as thrown up at work, but never mind. I am keeping the...

Today was the hour and a half lessons again which I hate. I’d rather do more shorter lessons that the kids are more focused for. The other problem was that as it was ‘grand opening day’ we had to do the lesson at Cheery’s Garden. This meant that two out of three students were late and people kept peeking in to the room and disturbing us. I did my old favourite recovered last night of Simon and Garfunkel’s At The Zoo with questions and games and a compre...