I packed my trunk, and said goodbye to the circus!!! A few more fairwells have been said since my last blog, and Matt and I were on our way to Guilin. Sunday was complete waste of the day, we spent it traveling, and by the time we arrived in our destination we were to tired and headed straight to bed for a busy day next day. Scott arrived early on the Monday morning and we set off for Elephant Trunk hill. First impressions of Guilin was that it was much more tou...

Teaching is over!!!! I'm sitting in a near empty apartment, with most of my stuff packed around me, except of course my trusty laptop, that has been one of the most useful tools in my teaching experience, but also for keeping you all updated. This will soon enough be packed too, and i'll be on my way to Guilin with Matt and Scott. My teaching is over, as is my time in Changsha. Was it hard to say goodbye? not really, they are kids who although you have your fav...

Happy New Year!!! My new year was probably just like everyone elses, drank too much, kicked out of club, chased by security, buying more beer at 6.30 in the morning, getting locked out of flat, jumping out of three different decades and jumping into three different new years (bloody time zones) and having a merry time, from what I can remember. Did lose both my scarf and one of my panda hats (sympathy please) along the way. Hope everyone had a good time back hom...

Merry Christmas everyone. It has been a busy few days here in Changsha with all the festive activities that we were involved in. CHRISTMAS EVE - just a normal morning, teaching as per usual, but we went out for lunch to a fish restaurant with the other teachers from our office. The fish was really fresh, we picked it ourselves out of the tanks. Was given the afternoon of, so we caught up on some well deserved sleep, energising ourselves for the night. This invol...

its been a while since my last blog, feel like i haven't really done much except for teaching. Obviously been teaching christmas to the kids, we've been making cards, watching films and playing games. All of which have been mostly fun, did make a handful of kids cry when watching the snowman, as i forgot that he died at the end, and didn't stop it in time with the first class - learnt my mistake and refrained from causing tears in the rest. With the older kids we...