I must admit, I have little to say in this blog, but I feel that it is required for completeness sake. It would afterall be nice to blog from each of the locations I happen to travel to! I have now begun my travelling for the next two months. My first stop was to meet up with Dan and Stephen in wonderful Zhangye, Gansu province, before we head down to Xi'an. After having spent 2 and a half days here, we are leaving tomorrow at 4 in the morning. In other words, a...

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...

As we come close to Christmas, I think it's time to talk about yet another eventful month over here in Kuitun! Everything from visiting the guys in Fukang, to getting involved in one of my student's music groups - it's been packed with new things. Lets start with our weekend to Fukang to see Alex and stephen. Because of travelling, we only had one full day to stay with them, but I think it was worth it. To be honest, it's quite good fun just travelling to and f...

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...