Today i felt much better. Still dodgy of tummy, but not sick, so off i went on the Ebike to work. It was freezing! Even with Pauls super wind proof gloves my hands were sore and numb by the first set of traffic lights and I must have looked quite funny banging my hands on the handlebars to warm them up as I rode. Today I had the day really well planned. The first lesson was looking at the difference between thirteen and thirty, fourteen and forty etc. This is so...

Today I was too ill to go to work. I had picked up stomach flu and spent all day running between the bathroom and my next of duvets on the sofa. Luckily they were able to cover for me at work as there was no way i could make the 1 and a half hour journey there, even though they asked me to for the afternoon class, I just couldn’t stop being sick. By the evening the pain in my stomach was less and due to not eating more than a few mouthfulls yesterday and only ...

Today was my day off so we decided to go to the ‘Master of Nets’ garden and check out the supposedly great shopping area nearby. The garden was meant to be the most beautiful in Suzhou and also the smallest. Well it was certainly small! Everything was packed tightly in together but without seeming too crowded, which was the general idea! The buildings were all of similar size and style to the other gardens, but the ‘garden areas’ were all very small and m...

Today was freezing! Paul took the Ebike to work so I had to try and get a taxi. It was the one day where the roads were jam packed and every taxi was occupied. I ended up walking all the way to Ganjiang Road and to the bus stop there. I still didn’t have a taxi so I goton the bus to work. It was OK time wise and someone even got up to let me sit, or maybe they were just getting of the bus, but I sat down the whole journey which was good because the driver had l...

Today we watched movies, lots of movies! Under a duvet. It was cold and rainy and miserable so going out was not really a good option as there wasn’t anything inside to do and gardens in this weather would have been rubbish. After 4pm the snack market opens just round the corner from Paul’s house on the way to the veg market. Snacks in China are crazy, as I’ve said before, they are nothing like English snacks. There were about 50 people with a Bunsen burner...