After my adventure into Inner Mongolia I spent the rest of my April weekends in Beijing to save some money (or at least try to!) 11/04 - Paul Oakenfold weekend - We heard Oakenfold was DJing at Banana in Beijing so we bought some tickets and had a brilliant time dancing on the bouncy dancefloor! 18/04 - Girls weekend - the boys had gone travelling to Harbin so the girls had a nice girlie weekend in Beijing. We stayed at Wanfujing hostel which is now our "h...

Time is just flying by here! Can't believe it's been over a month since I last updated this thing! There's been plenty going on so here's a run-down of the latest happenings in China... Shenyang - My first trip away from Beijing and I went to visit some of the people I met at UIBE during the first month of teacher training. The trains were surprisingly easy to figure out and I got to Shenyang without any hiccups! There's not really much to see or do in Shenyang ...

So far I've survived 2 weeks of teaching at Yangzhen No 1 Middle School. Loved the first week, not so keen on the second week and it's picking back up now I'm in my third. The kids are pretty well behaved, alot better than in England anyway, but when you've got 50 students in one class, it makes things a little hard. With the amount of homework that's dumped onto them everyday plus constant exams their favourite hobby does tend to be sleeping - especially in cla...