Ni hao pengyou he jiating (Hello friends and family) After the last blog, I said the weather was cooling down - scratch that.. we had another heat spell! ha!! The little change in weather however, seemed to give me a cold! :-( This week I had lots of fun in my classes, and I treated some of the kids to fun lessons - such as making healthy smoothies and an ICT class where they made powerpoints on volcanoes. I am getting to know the children alot better now, but ...

Hey peops, hope everything at home is fine and dandy with you! I feel a little out of the loop here, as the internet is so scarce - Cornwall could actually have become its own country, and I would be none the wiser! lol.Things are still grand here, I had a four day weekend last weekend, and only worked 3 days this week as I effectively have every Friday off anywho~!! So can't complain!! So I've had some time off to explore and chillax. Me and Katie checked out th...

Hi folks, This week has been the first of my new job, teaching in China. I say "week" but Friday was a national holiday called "Teachers Day" so naturally all teachers get the day off! Monday of next week is also Moon Festival, so a day off! so in essence I have a 4 day weekend! woop woop!! The school also gave us a giftcard for a huge supermarket worth 50 quid. Which sounds like not very much.. but you can buy ALOT for 50 quid in China!!!...

Hey everyone, I haven't had the internet for 10 days, hence no updates!! Hope everyone is good in the UK! Everything is great here in Beijing. Alot has happened since my last update, from Changzhou Province, China. The teaching course went really well, the students were really sweet and very appreciative of us coming to teach them English. After 5 days, we all packed up and toke a 5 hour speed train (travelling at 300kmh) to Beijing and spent the time playing Wiz...

Hi everyone!!! I am turning to statravel blog, because facebook is illegal and I tried getting around it by using a proxy - which gave my laptop a big virus! I was then stood infront of 50 student teachers, about to teach a lesson to discover that my laptop wouldn't turn on because of the viruses! So.. I have wiped my computer -and will have to rely on my friend Cody for checking facebook, but will not be able to rely on using it very much :s So all of my pictu...