The fellows in the picture for this blog are myself in the middle, Marcus on the right, and our Supervisor, Kai, on the left. Kai's invitation to eat at his home is the focus of today's blog - day 3 of national blog posting month. I said at the end of the last blog that we were off to Kai's house for a meal and some drinking, but it turned out to be a rather interesting evening. Yes, it was a great evening, but at the same time the interesting part wasn't exactl...

Just like the last post, the picture has absolutely nothing to do with the content of the blog! On day 2 of this month of posting every day, i'll talk about how we spend our evenings at the weekend. We are already regular 'customers' at a western restaurant/bar called 'christian', and we will usually go there at least once at the weekend. I say 'customers' in inverted commas, as we're more just friends with the owner, Jasper. We never have to pay for drinks, so ...

Firstly, the photo has nothing to with the title of the blog, but offexploring requires a photo with each blog post. Today is November 1st. This means one thing - the start of national blog posting month! I'm not sure which country it is national to, but i'm not going to worry about it that much. What is important is that it's a nice excuse to write a short blog every day this month - as that is exactly the aim of national blog posting month. I actually tried t...

Well there's no denying that the last few days have been eventful to say the least... so lets start off with the least interesting thing and move up from there. I mentioned briefly in the last blog that we would be travelling to Ili to sort out the final bits and pieces of our work permit. The trip wasnt terribly exciting, but it certainly was exhausting. We caught our sleeper train at around 1 in the morning, and spent the next 7 hours catching up on some hea...

One month past in a flash, and the second went by even quicker. I could spend time reflecting on the first two months as a whole right now, but there is just too much to write about which is more recent...and I have another train to catch in 2 hours. I said in my last post that there were plenty of positive parts of teaching that I missed out writing about. This week has had so many of those good aspects, that just describing this weeks events would describe fai...