HUAIROU, Beijing Province: Monday again! It's gradually starting to get less nerve-wracking each time I walk into a class.... 50 faces is a lot though!!! Started my 'food' series of lessons - just doing basic food vocab & adjectives this week, i think it's fairly easy for the students, but it's difficult to judge. I think the abilities vary so much, just within a class! Went back to Mini Food Street for dinner, we're starting to get known there now - I th...

HUAIROU, Beijing Province: Got up pretty early and made it back to Huairou in the rain. Did some lesson planning, watched a few films, and then went for dinner at Mini Food Street - a small version of the Food Street we went to in Harbin!

BEIJING CITY, Beijing Province: Got up a bit later than intended... TTC have organised a meal this evening for all the interns that have been placed in Beijing, and we'd planned to do some touristy things before the meal. We eventually arrived into Beijing - the journey was nowhere-near as complicated as Cao Yanna had made out! She said we'd need to get 5 different buses... we got one, which took us straight to pretty near the centre of Beijing! Looking at th...

HUAIROU, Beijing Province: Friday! Woooop Had only two lessons to do today, they went ok... not great, but the kids mainly did what I asked. Hardly slept at all last night, I was not comfy! Was woken up constantly by the bloody a/c... Woke up in a really bad mood! Spoke to Miss Cao, we're not going to be moving into an apartment for another week! Apparently the other place we were going to move into was not very nice, and they've found us another much nice...

HUAIROU, Beijing Province: Today - my earliest start every week - 10.20am! so early haha Only had two lessons today-two in a row, so I was done before lunchtime. My first lesson went really well, but my second class seemed to take much longer to do anything - didn't have time to play Pictionary at the end, only time for a quick game of hang man instead. After the lesson, one of the students told me the lesson had been 'so boring'! he even wrote it on the boa...