Happy belated birthday to me!!!! had a really good birthday, thanks for all the messages and txts. Got a lovely cake, with candles, however not quite enough, that'l be cause i'm getting old :( Went out for dinner too that night, just to a small eatery near the meat market at our school. My flat mates also bought we a bottle of wine, and a Doraemon keychain. My kids at the boarding school call me Doraemon - which is a Japanese cartoon caracter with a big front po...

I'm never drinking again - god knows how many times I've said that, you'd think I'd learn. Last night we went out, back to the 48 yuan pub, all you can drink, its a recipe for disaster. Met up with Ashling too, and headed then to a KTV place which was just round the corner. There we meet a guy called Kiddy who is from Changsha but lived in London for 9 years. Basically just drank to much, but had a really good night, shame about the hangover. We felt like we des...

The others arrived back thursday morning from Inner Mongolia, we decided to have a lazy day. Friday though Matt, Scott and I went to Shaoshan, which is where Mao's house is. The journey took over 2 hours, but was defenitly worth it. The house itself isn't really what I expected, much bigger than a normal farm house is, and also it appeared that each son had his own room, didn't think that happened in China. Suppose out in the countryside they don't have the same ...

Happy Birthday China!!!! It's been 60 years since the peoples republic of china was founded. Soren and I decided since we had a free day we would go up Mountain Yuelu, which is on the other side of the water. Over hour on the bus to get there, and getting of at the wrong stop we finnaly made it. After seeing a map only then did we discover how much there was to see up the there, and also how far we might have to walk. Lazy Europeans - we took the cable car up th...

Class 10, grade 2!!! my worst class for the entire week, I thought this was because they were my first class of the week and my lesson plan gets tweaked as the week goes on. Due to working my thursday classes on sunday, this should not have been the case. My lesson worked well on the sunday - not for class 10. I don't know how to keep them calm, the noise level is nearly unbearable, my assistant doesn't help either. This is the only class that she is my assistant...