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 ...