I figured I should write a bit about what I'm actually out in China to do so here is a bit about my teaching placement in Yi Min middle school. The school is about 10 minutes away from our flat by bus, which is the most crowded, hot and dangerous experience of my life. I'm pretty sure I've already talked about public transport here in China but there is genuinely so many people on a bus you can't even move and the bus drivers emergency stop every 5 minutes to avo...

So my plan to update my blog regularly hasn't quite gone to plan but here is my first blog post from China! Our journey to Beijing was pretty straight forward apart from a few delays, a volunteer missing the flight and another volunteer losing their passport in Hong Kong airport an hour before our connecting flight.. The important thing is that we all made it and we are all still alive which has to count for something! Once we arrived at the hostel we dropp...