I should feel a lot worse 2day than I actually do, was a very heavy drinking session last night, resulting in Soren Matt and I not geting back until about 6 o'clock in the morning - we deserved the night since we have been so hard working the last two weeks. Truthfully the weeks have been rather uneventful, taught "birthdays" to my students, the first week going over words like balloon and cake, and they made birthday cards. The second week I threw a b...

Whoever created the words for the months of the year - did they not consider how difficult they are, 1. because they are all so bloody similar, and 2. because August has the same beginning pronounciation as October, but with completely different spelling, no wonder my poor grade 2s were a bit confused. We got there though, and most of the kids remembered the months of the year by the end of the lesson. What I was even more impressed with though was they remember...

Teaching English to kids with no clue.First of all you need super glue.Not the cheap stuff that wont do,The really strong stuff you must use! Because you cant teach them English, if they don't sit stillAnd believe me with super glue, sit still they will!Now you've got them in position,the next tricky task, to get them to listen. For this I suggest a cattle rod,They'll soon be silent after one long prod.If this doesn't work, there's always a cane,Very good for s...

"you're damned if you do, damned if you don't" "6 and half a dozen" "sods law" The common cold cannot and will not be beaten, so why do we try? So all the kids had been sent home, as had Scott. The rest of us taught at East Campus and Shazitang without to much sickness in the classroom and with no major disasters. I did however teach my grade 5 class the lesson I had prepared for my grade 3s-what was even more embarrasing is th...

SCHOOLS OUT FOR SWINE FLU, SCHOOLS OUT FOR EVER . . . well at least til the end of the week. Yep the dreaded swine flu has hit Changsha - my classes on monday were hit badly, in one class half the class were not present, and apparently in other classes there were only about 10 students. So since it is a boarding school and everyone lives in such close proximities to each other the school has closed for the week and all the children sent home. 6th period on mond...