Oh the joy of being back in my apartment! All I can think of right now is getting some sleep! I had been looking forward to a good night's sleep last night, but alas, it did not go to plan. After a stressful eight days at summer camp, followed by a non-stop whirlwind few days in Shanghai, finishing with the slowest train journey ever back to Nanjing (the train stopped at every station, and sometimes even stopped where there wasn't a station... Yawn!)... I ar...

Oops... It appears that the gaps between my journal entries are becoming longer and longer. I should probably just accept the fact that I will only be disciplined enough to write once a week during my time here in Nanjing. It's probably for the best anyway... I'll run out of things to write otherwise... And you'll get sick of reading about it... If you're not already. I haven't really been up to much this week. Just settling into a routine, soaking up some s...

It has been a few days since I have written anything down. Bad Emma! I must become more disciplined with my journal entries. Thursday was my day off so I took a stroll to the Golou are to find a post office, and sit in the small yet perfectly formed Beijige Park. The weather was the sunniest I've seen since I arrived, so I lounged on a marble park bench and finished Granado's book, before heading off in search of the post office to send postcards to my paren...

I don't have a huge amount to say today really ("well that makes a change" I hear you cry!) but I couldn't resist putting pen to paper. After an average day of teaching, I left the office to go for an early evening run. The weather has been blazing hot today so I nearly backed out, but stuck with it and went out for a nice forty minute jog. Once I'd completed my usual loop, I decided to cool down with a twenty minute walk to the local supermarket. A sur...

After four days I am returning to my poor abandoned journal. I last wrote on Friday, and so much, yet so little, has happened since. I believe it is a good thing that I have relied less upon my diary as a travelling companion, it means that I am meeting real people and actually living rather than just writing about life... Which can't be a bad thing. Saturday was great fun. After some pretty boring 'demo lessons' at the school, I made a trip to Danny's ...