I apologise for my last entry, it became more of a collection of incessant ramblings than first anticipated. This one, I promise, shall be far more invigorating! A week off, what bliss! Students busy taking exams and then the May holiday meant that our wonderous teaching skills were not required and so we embraced this freedom with much enthusiasm. Mostly, we spent a great deal of time being thoroughly greedy and incredibly naughty by quenching our hunger with a...

Here I am again, my fourth week in Wenchang complete and another weekend in Haikou gone. The mood over the past few days has been a sombre one; we have said farewell to members of our group, good friends have now left us for home. It's bizarre to think that they are returning to family, friends, english lifestyles...reality, while we continue our adventures here, almost in a dream, knowing that at some point we will have to awake and return to the monotony of lif...

A great many things have happened since my last blog, hence the delay in updating you all. After writing last, I dashed off to my afternoon lesson, eager to meet my final class. Now, I think I would rather throw myself into a pack of ravenous beasts than teach them again. We began as always with basic introductions; I threw a ball to a random student, asked their name and then they would pass it on. Simple enough. This class however, hurled the ball to one anot...

And she is officially a teacher. Oh yes. On Sunday night, we were, at about 9pm, taken to our twelve classes, each with over seventy seventeen to twenty year old students. What a kerfuffle we caused. On entering each room, students cheered, clapped, looked in awe, took photos, whispered and nudged one another. Mr Zhang introduced us to them all and prepared them for their week to come with us as their new english teachers. He asked them to be our friends and dru...

I'm now in Wenchang! Had a very tearful departure day, I was so reluctant to leave the group and familiar surroundings of Haikou. This was made worse when the others, in all their loveliness, presented Zoe and myself - Zoe being my Wenchang companion - with leaving gifts and a handmade card. Eventually our bus arrived an hour late, as we clambered in, the group waved us off from the balcony. Very emotional. However, after initial tears, the excitement set in, es...