Breakfast in the hotel this morning then sat by the pool for the morning. Repacked my rucksack discarding anything I possibly could (as I knew I was going to be carrying it for some time today) then checked out and headed over to the airport to meet the Teach and Travel China reps. There was one other student there when I arrived so they put us on a bus to Dongguan where another rep meet us and took us to our accomodation. Being an 'mature' student I got a room t...

Arrived in China this afternoon. I really can't believe how smoggy it is - I know everyone talks about it but it's so hot yet not sunny at all. Decided I couldn't afford hotel food (got to get into this travelling lark!) so ventured out of the hotel to find some food. It was third time lucky in finding a english menu and then someone who could help me locate something vegetarian - in the end they made me a special meal which I proceeded to take several hours t...