Time for another update... Been a busy couple of weeks with all our lessons and the start of teaching practice. Myself and four others were given a class at Beijing No 7 Middle School for a week to teach them a short course of English lesson. Although it was hard work at the beginning, by the end of it we were all pros and the kids we taught were so willing to learn (a nice change from England). On Friday we had to say goodbye and a couple of us (5) ended our ti...

Settling in to life here in Beijing and the lessons are going well although I think we're all struggling with the concept of English grammar - fingers crossed I won't have to teach too much of that! More excitingly we've been on some more excursions! I've started sampling some of Beijing's finest cuisine a the food markets including snake and silk work larvae (the latter tasting surprisingly like peanut butter) For Chinese New Year the TTC guys organised a part...

Hurrah, so here I am in Beijing - getting here was pretty easy only with a small hic-up at Shanghai airport but nothing that a bit of talking slowly and pointing couldn't sort out! I'm staying at the University of International Business and Economics for the teacher training and have been getting up to some "team building" excercises that have helped loose my lasts shreds of dignity! Our team's choregraphed Britney Spears routine was probably the nail ...