Thank God its sunday, the day of rest, it's been a long tiring week, but worth it. This week I've been taken out of my comfort zone, and been made to do things that I would never normally do, however glad I did them, but not sure they should EVER be repeated. First thing was on Tuesday, during our usual napping time. The six of us were made to dress up in Halloween costumes, and in the dark hand out candy to all the teachers in the school and make them play game...

so the school trip went ahead today - were off to the park. All the kids, over 2000 of the them set of at 8.30 to go to the biggest park in Changsha. We weren't going there, we were heading to Changsha zoo to see a panda. There is only one word to describe the zoo, and that is "horrible." It is dingy, smells like something is rotten,the cages where smaller than you can possibly imagine, and the animals all really sad and lonely. Did get to see a panda,...

Happy Halloween!!! not that we are doing anything here for it, many of the pubs are having themed nights, and we had talked about going to one of them, or throwing a party at the flat, but nothing came off it, which I'm pretty glad of since I'm absolutly knackered - we've had a busy day 2day. Matt, Anna and I went off to discover the No.1 teacher training college, which is where Mao once studied and later in life, also taught at. We took the bus, accidentally ge...

So we still went for a massage, Matt, Scott and I. We were informed of one that is close to where we stay, that was reasonablly priced - so armed with a map (drawn by Coco) we went on our way. Scott was leading, why oh why would we allow this? He actually has the worst sense of direction, with no ability to judge distance, yet Matt and I blindly followed, with hestitation I would like to add, however Scott being American he is always right. So heading in what we...

On monday, we were informed that we would be going on a field trip with ALL the students, which is over 2000. So we dressed for the occassion, the weather was nice, there was no reason to not be going - however someone somewhere in the school decided that the school now weren't going and that we would go next week, assuming the weather permits, not sure why we weren't going that day. This caused a few minor problems, since none of the international teachers had p...