Chaos, destruction, manic, disobedient, uncooperative, disaster, bedlam, commotion, hectic - all these words would not even begin to describe how my first class went. Did they listen, course not!!! Did they understand, course not!!! Did my assistant translate EVERYTHING, yes. Since it was my first lesson, and I was scared and nervous (who wouldn't be of a class of over 60 students), I'm not going to critise my performance tooooo much. It definitely could have ...

wrote my last blog entry on Fri early afternoon - instead of my nap (hope u appreciate that) later that day we went to the Kindergarten that i'l be teaching at. There are three different age groups here, I've been given the youngest and the oldest to teach, one class of each. The young ones are 2 years old, they don't even know chinese yet, let alone trying to teach them English. The older ones are 4 and 5, just slightly to young to go into grade 1 at school, but...

so since I last wrote, which wasn't really that long ago, much has happened. I've introduced myself to well over 5000 people, I've been to 2 opening cermonies, where flags have been raised. Also destroyed a beatles song (not on my own, i'd like to add), met various government officials from Changsha, made flags, sang songs, watched a fashion parade, and practised Kung Fu. I have countlessly been pointed and stared at, and will say hello to over 300 students in on...

don't no if u can c it clearly, but the dots on the floor in the living room is a giant game of twister, oh the fun we can have with that. shame my legs don't reach from the purple to the red lol. Another day at the office - we are suppose to be planning our lessons, but we all easily get distracted, generally by the wireless internet available in the room lol. We also opened our chinese bank accounts today. Can't believe it took soooo long, 2 and a half hours t...

got my timetable and who I'm gonna be working with, got grade 2's so aged about 6. This is cool, it was about the age I was hoping for, and the age I have most experience with.Went into the classes today, just to say hi, they are all soooo cute, get a Chinese assistant in with my lessons tho so they can translate and help organise if need be. slightly put of by this, really wanted to do it on my own, but sure it'l be fine, hope they don't take over. Our main loc...