Hi everyone Stupidly hot here today - April is obviously the season for thunder storms, as it will be very close & muggy one day then what sounds like the perfect storm will take place outside in the evening ! The first time I've had to put my ceiling fan on today in about 5 months too. I had hoped to make this blog entry about a Car exhibition we had been invited to attend in town but, I had a call last night to say that the weather was not supposed to be...

Last monday saw Brian, myself and some of his students going on a Camping trip, as we had Monday - Wednesday off, due to the Qing Ming Festival. The festival celebrates people's deceased relatives, and so people go to their families tombs & graves and decorate them with flowers, make offerings etc. The mountain we visited was Mt. Wugong (not the one in the picture at the top of this post btw!) - not sure on the details but it's apparently twice as tall as M...

25th Blog Post! Hello all - it feels like this should be my 125th blog post, given the amount of time I've been here ! These past few weeks have been pretty standard in terms of teaching but, last Sunday I went to Changsha for the day. Shopping, in case you were wondering, which was v.nice. I also visited Starbucks which was a real treat! It's amazing how things like going for a coffee in Starbucks have now become almost occasions because there're no Western pla...

So, Week 3 (teaching week that is) has started & I am slowly getting used to my massive new classes! The weather will hopefully start getting warmer & sunnier soon..I hope - it'll make going to the gym easier :P I say this as it's been a nice day today - cloudy but with sunshine & a lot warmer, so long may it continue! We'll probably have another week of dull, grey, damp weather now..aha... I took some pictures around campus at the weekend to show th...

Thought I'd write a quick update of what's been happening so far, now that it's back to school time here at PX college! Term started last week, and I've got 5 new classes as well as 4 that I taught last semester. Brian has completely new classes as he taught seniors last semester who have now all graduated. There are still, obviously, lots of students here but you can tell there aren't as many compared to last term. Even so, it's nice that there's more life back...