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 ...

3 months, a quarter of the way through my year, into living in China and every day is still new and still exciting. Each passing month feels slightly shorter than the last, so I'm sad to say I realise that this year is going to pass in a flash. Other than being the 3 month mark, yesterday (I' m writing day 22 the morning after, as i was out when I usually write) was a pretty great day. My lessons didn't have the great ending to 'International education week' tha...

As the month goes on, my posts are getting shorter and shorter...I feel today is going to unfortunately follow that trend. Nevermind! I like thursdays. My first class is pretty good, and the second is the only quiet class that I teach. There may only be a handful of good students in the second class but they all listen. As far as i'm concerned, I don't mind if a class isn't that great as long as they try, so class 11 is the one I respect the most. As for today'...

我今天在高中学有一节课. (Today I had a lesson at the high school). Well, it wasn't a lesson as such, but more some activities based on international education week. The experience was wonderful though - I finally had a class that did in fact pay attention for once! The difference between the high school and the middle school could be measured in light years, and that's just for the amount of attention the students have. It's also good to finally know t...

That picture is completely unrelated, once again, to the post, but nevermind. As it's there, I will say a word or two about it anyway. This was the evening meal during PT's visit to see us in Kuitun. Tom took the photo, so unfortunately he's not in it, but you can still see Ingrid on the right. The restaurant is a favourite of mine. It's a fancy uighur-style restaurant which has the most amazing kebabs as it's speciality. Uighur food is, of course, some of the be...