Another missed day I'm afraid, down to the website not working properly,but nevermind!

My week has finished one day early, as the students have to sit a special kind of cultural exam tomorrow. I don't fully understand the exam, but apparently it's not easy at all. I feel sorry for them though. I get a day off because they have a day of working even harder that usual...

I guess I won't complain about this day off though - despite the lack of lessons this week (a few got cancelled for various reasons), It's been hard work. As i said in the blog earlier this week, I tried getting my students to write a short story in English and attempting to get students to understand has been an uphill struggle. Yet, finally today I had some luck! We had a great lesson coming up with a rather surreal character, then writing around 100 words on the fellow. It seems my thursday classes have more creativity than Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. A lesson which isn't quite going your way is, honestly, physically draining, so to finally have some success at the end of my shorter than usual week, is a wonderful feeling.

Outside of teaching, yesterday I witnessed something I won't forget for a while. Fog, a fairly normal thing really, looks incredibly in Kuitun. Well, more the things you can see looming out of what you can't see. The street where my flat is is a fairly busy road in the evenings and is much wider than the majority of streets in the city. So much so that when crossing the road, i couldn't see the other side. See, this wouldn't be such a huge problem in the UK, when traffic has to stop for a green pedestrian light, but in China, turning traffic can carry on turning despite pedestrians desperately trying to cross. Crossing a road where all I could see were lights flying in every direction and cars appearing out nowhere, driving in my direction, is something I won't be able to forget easily. Despite the danger of being hit by incoming vehicles, Kuitun did look pretty amazing in the fog too. Because of the perfectly straight roads everywhere, the streets appeared to just disappear into nothingness, and mysterious looking silhouettes of people slowly turning more and more into shadows as they could be seen no more. It's hard to explain why fog looked more impressive in Kuitun than in other places, but it truly did.

Hmm, short blog, but I have little more to say today.

More tomorrow!