Part 2 So being very hungover from our karaoke night Mr Lui woke us up to show us the school and give us our textbooks and keys to the office. Before even having a chance to buy a bottle of water and having the worst dry mouths ever we traced up around the school and then met the rest of the group at 9.30am to begin our TEFL course with Carmine to prepare us for teaching the following week. We went through the teaching techniques and the difference in culture ...

Sooo this week has been a bit of a whirlwind, so much has happened and it will be hard to remember absolutely everything so we'll write the first half of the week now and post the rest tomorrow, but we'll start back at our eventful journey from Hong Kong to Changsha. So we got up at 4:30 to set off on our journey having pre booked no trains and hoping to wing it the whole way. Got to the subway at 5 to realise it didn't open until 6…. we knew this journey wa...

After nearly missing our transfer, being rushed through security and a dramatic run through the airport, we made our connecting flight just in time! Then for the challenge of finding our hostel .. much to our enjoyment (Not) we lapped the airport 5 times .. Turns out not as many people as we thought speak English (ignorant b******s who doesn't know how to speak English? lol) and everyone had a different route for us to take. We then bumped into a very h...

Set off on our travels after what has been an amazing weekend, Emily loved living the Leigh dream (sarcasm) but was good to see everyone and say goodbye. Just got to the travel lodge and it looks like a bomb has hit it already definitely going to have to get ourselves a cleaner/slave in China. As you can see from the picture we have been brushing up on our Mandarin Niki even learnt what a vowel meant which might come in handy when teaching English. Were going to ...