sorry it has been a while since I last wrote a blog. What have i done since then? my assignment was due in on monday morning so was a late night on the sunday trying to finish it of, and make it legable. So with that handed in, monday night free time we went to a food market were they sell all kinds of things that just shouldn't be eaten. obviously i tried as many things as a possible, starfish, scorpions, water dog, cockroaches and god knows what else - photo...

Absolutly gutted!!!! today we went back to study :( classes were ok, bit tedious probably due to the lack of air conditioning in the class room. Mandarin classes were fun, they have letters in their phonetic alphabet that I can't even pronounce let alone try use them in words lol. few of us decided to go out for dinner, after our disasterous lunch in the canteen. Dog!!! we've been in the country long enough now, we should try it. Mentally prepared ourselves, we...

After a very late start, and a few rather delicate heads a few of us headed to the silk markets to do some haggling. I've been to loads of markets and yep they are all the same. The first stall we went into poor Adele was grabbed and backed into a corner, luckily some the fisher boys walked passed and help us, out of principle she did not buy the items that we had gone in to look at, even when we were offered it at the price we had wanted. The rest of the shoppin...

We're out of quarantine and now staying at the university in beijing. now sharing room with Helen and 2 other people from other hotel. Flat is basic but comfortable, and its not as if we spend that much time in here anyway. Great Wall!!! - its rather great. Was a really early start, but meant we were there before it was 2 hot, which was a fantastic idea. We had 2 and a half hours on wall. chose not to follow the crowd and go the less busy route when we arrived....

So lessons have all now offically started. I get lessons in Mandarin, English pronouciation,spelling,grammer and classroom management. Its really bad that all the scandinavians and austrians in our class have a better understanding of these concepts than the native english speakers, since I didn't learn half this stuff at school. Really hoping for young children in my class now, so I don't have to teach them grammer and all that lol. Teaching my first lesson 2da...