I was pretty sure that my coat was a grey one, but by the end of yesterday it had changed colour. It had gone a few shades paler, as the infamous west-China snow has arrived. -30 degrees incoming any day now. As you may see, I did indeed fail to post a blog yesterday. This is because yesterday was a rather good day, with plenty of spontaneity. As I got off the bus on my way home, I got a text from Kai to say that instead of going home, I should come to his offic...

The other day, I looked up to the city skyline on my way to work and thought - that skyscraper over there wasn't there the other day... And that's why I have a picture of a big, ugly, unfinished building for today's photo. It sums up the excessive speed that Kuitun is developing. The building in that photo, for example, is now plated in very fancy looking glass, and across the road, there is another tall building going up. In the UK, towns expand outwards. In C...

(day 6 didn't post properly, so here it is again) Let's start with what I missed in the last post. Yesterday Marcus introduced me to his friend in senior 3, whose English name is kelvin. Kelvin speaks particularly good English in comparison to many of the other students, so it's nice to have a good English speaker of the same age as us around. he doesn't get much free time at all, being in senior 3. In China, competition for university places is so high that ...

This website wasn't loading yesterday, which kind of broke my attempt to do a post every day, so to make up for it I will write something very quick now, and write again this evening. I like tuesdays, as on tuesday I have my favourite class. I do wonder whether or not I should have a favourite class, because what follows from having a favourite class is to have a least favourite class, and hence a class I don't like teaching. What makes me like one of my tuesday...

I'll start off day four with four words. Husky on a moped. But that was how my day ended - seeing a husky ride with it's owner on a moped. See, what should be the most amazing thing about that is the fact that Huskies are big dogs, and so how on earth could you fit one, with the owner, on a one man vehicle? The truth is however that there is one more more impressive fact - you never ever see big dogs in China, because dogs over a particular size are banned. Any ...