HARBIN, Heilongjiang Province: This morning I woke up after not much sleep... Went to meet Claire and Emma to go up to the 14th floor, good thing I did as well coz I woke them both up! We had to meet upstairs for a meeting about our contracts. We were sat in our province groups, and I sat next to Sarah. We had a look through all the information about our school - it doesn't sound like we're anything near the city of Beijing! The sheet says the area around is...

HARBIN, Heilongjiang Province: Last day of TEFL lessons! Suddenly hit home that we're leaving this weekend, to start properly teaching! scary scary!!! Joakim set up a game of "teacher's Revenge" as a funny but terrifying example of what could happen if you lose control of mental students! We had to take turns attempting to teach the class, whilst each "student" had been given a stereotypical student to act out. I was the geeky - "as...

HARBIN, Heilongjiang Province: More TEFL lessons in the morning... felt quite fragile, so had a quiet night!

HARBIN, Heilongjiang Province: More lessons, but in the afternoon today we were told our placements!! I'm being placed in Beijing, with about 20 other people, including Liz my room-mate, Austen, Josephine, Ed, Warren & Teresa! There's one other person at my school - Sarah Rawle, but it's brilliant how many people are around! Apparently it's a massive city - it can take up to two hours to get from one side to the other - but I'm sure we won't be bored of stu...

HARBIN, Heilongjiang Province: Back to TEFL training again, because I'm not in the kindergarten group, we're learning all about grammar... fascinating stuff! It was Michelle's birthday today, so we went out for dinner and ate lots of dumplings! Michelle managed to order a whole plate of dumplings that I could eat! It was awwwesome.