Evening! Have uploaded the photos from my Changsha trip a few weeks ago, so you can see that Changsha (it's practically down the road) is a lot bigger & more built up compared to Pingxiang: they have a McDonald's...But I think there'll be a McD's in Pingxiang too one day, the city is growing - there's a lot of building work going on around campus as well as on it - massive apartment buildings so I reckon you'll be able to get a Big Mac from Pingxiang one day...

Changsha Internet problems still, so none of my new photos added yet :( I also took some of my day trip to Changsha with Brian at the weekend. Was a good day out! The journey from Pingxiang to Changsha only takes about an hour and 10 minutes - it's just over the border in Hunan province, if you look on a map you'll see they're very close. We had lovely 1st class seats on the way there - loads of leg room & a steal at 47.00 RMB each!! (about 4 pounds 70!) Ou...

Hi everyone, The week after National week has been very busy here, as we were teaching last Saturday and Sunday as well as our normal teaching schedule so we've had a 7 day week this week! The weather here continues to be a bit temperamental; on thursday this week it was grey and rainy, and quite cool all day whereas on friday and today, it's sunny, not a cloud in the sky although thankfully not as hot ! I do have a couple of photos to add from campus - they ...

Shanghai Trip '11 Long time no entry I know but, I have much to tell as last Saturday until thursday I was in Shanghai for the National Day holiday. Again, with Beijing, if you ever get the invitation/opportunity to visit - VISIT! It's an amazing city, beautiful in some areas and full of history and culture - definately a city to be ticked off if you're spending a long-ish amount of time in China. The train journey there was fairly quick and very easy - I was ...

Finally managed to get my photos on! Have added some more - mainly of the classrooms & teaching buildings which are at one end of the campus. The classrooms here are all pretty big - built for classes of about 50 maybe 60 with a few bigger, lecture -type rooms as well. They all have computers & projectors in them but on the whole are pretty shabby :/ marks and scuffs on the walls, lots of dust from chalk left over & the floors are swept and mopped at ...