I cannot BEGIN to tell you how hot it is here at the moment. I went out for lunch today, and whilst I was standing there while it was being prepared - 5 minutes at MOST- I got sunburn on my shoulders. My black shoes were painful, because they were so hot. It's insane. It's a dry heat too, the humidity has dropped so now it's just bare heat! Two of the air conditioners in the school have broken - and muggins here had one of them first thing this morning. Saturday ...

My Oral English today was awesome. We were talking about 'Stress' and they got so into it, and actual discussions were taking place in the class! It helped that I had Benson and Betty back - two very talkative students, and they kinda break the ice for the students. I found out that if you want to graduate from the best University here in China (the name of it slips my mind now...) you have to run a 3000m track! Whaaat is that all about?! Apparently it's meant t...

The problem with starting the week off so well, is that every day afterwards seems so rubbish in comparison. Yesterday was a bit of an organisational nightmare as L, the scheduling person cocked mine up. So we had to watch a movie in class, and I had to spend my free afternoon making a new powerpoint that I was never meant to be doing. So I wasn't best pleased shall we say. Today hasn't been much better. I did my presentation on Scotland (that was rather hasti...

The problem with starting the week off so well, is that every day afterwards seems so rubbish in comparison. Yesterday was a bit of an organisational nightmare as L, the scheduling person cocked mine up. So we had to watch a movie in class, and I had to spend my free afternoon making a new powerpoint that I was never meant to be doing. So I wasn't best pleased shall we say. Today hasn't been much better. I did my presentation on Scotland (that was rather hasti...

Well it's the day after Beijing, and I'm KNACKERED. Not fair that I had a 9am class today.. but it was oh-so worth it!! Yesterday was definitely, without a doubt, the best day I've had here. I didn't want to come back to teach! We got up at 5.30am, i showered, got dressed, grabbed a yoghurt, finished packing my rucksack (oh-so attractive!) and headed out! Our train was at 7:05 but we had to walk to the station, so we left really early! We got to the station no w...