The end of travelling certainly doesn't equate to the end of the fun and surprises of living in China, so here follows the first blog for after spring fest. There's plenty to talk about! I arrived home on midnight from Urumqi after those few days in Fukang mentioned in the last blog. It was a comfortable -20 or so and the trees lining their way from the train station all the way to the centre of town were still coated in thick snow. For some reason I decided to ...

Well, today unbelievably is new year's day and perhaps even more unbelievable, I will be hopping on a train in 3 hours to start travelling for 2 months! I'm sure you're all wondering though, what on earth has happened in the last few weeks? Time to tell a story or two I think... I would love to start with the wedding I went to the weekend before Christmas, but just for sake of completeness, i will begin at the night before. On the saturday Kai invited be out for...

I have a fittingly exciting thing to end with at the end of my month of blogging. Later tonight, well early morning tomorrow (3 in the morning), we are taking the sleeper train to Urumqi to meet the guys in Fukang! We haven't seen any other PT vols since the start of October, so it's a great way to start December. Hopefully, there will be many a story to tell after our visit. As we have a train soon and we have a few things to do beforehand, I won't be writing a...

I've been ill for the last few days and so missed a couple of blogs. Sorry, but I needed sleep! This will also be kept short, as i'm still a little ill and don't have the energy to write something of a reasonable length Anyway, today I would like to talk about learning Chinese so far, as three months in seems like a good point to stop and think about how it's all going. I use quite a few different ways to improve my Chinese. A lot of the ways are pretty du...

It's generally accepted that religion is a bit of a taboo topic in China. So much so, that sometimes church meetings of foriegners in China get broken up mid-service. With this dislike towards religion, there surely would be no chance at all in China of spending time with Christians and talking theology, right? About that. I may have just spent the majority of my day with John, Kuitun's pastor, and some of his Christian friends, talking about Christianity. They ...