Birthdays & Graduation Parties..and a trip to A&E !! After Christina's birthday weekend in Changsha, it was birthday season here too, as I had a pre-birthday meal & it was also Ben's birthday (his actual birthday :p) last week too. For my birthday meal, we went to a new restaurant near the college (next to the gym) which also does Western food. As it was my 'birthday' I got given a bowl of Birthday noodles - (eating the longer ones will ensure you ha...

Ni hao! A lot has been going on since my last blog entry - can't believe how close it is to Christmas now! Last weekend Ben, Christina, Brian & myself went to Changsha to celebrate Christina's birthday and to also meet up with some of the other teachers we met in Beijing. Needless to say, it was a fab weekend :) and really cool to see everyone again On friday night, me, Christina and Ben arrived and went to our hotel, and then met the others for dinner in a...

Saturday night at KTV :) Hi everyone - had a lovely weekend. Friday night we went for dinner at our local favourite hotel, standard. Then on Saturday we were taken to dinner by Ben and Brian's co-teachers, Carrie and Mandy, to a lovely restaurant where we ate a spicy stir-fry/hot-pot that was cooked in front of us on the table! It was very hot but very tasty, full of flavour and colour: probably one of the best meals I've had since being in Pingxiang! Afterward...

Sunday stroll Hi everyone! Been a busy few weeks as per here - sorting out exams, teaching etc but last sunday, we managed to find some time to visit a nearby 'mountain': it was, in fact, just a very big, steep hill ! But it was amazing weather, it's still fairly warm & mild here, even in mid-November, so I managed to take some good photos Afterwards, we went to a nearby tea-house, where I tried Chrysanthemum tea - as Brian described it - 'tastes like a ga...

Evening all! Delay in posting again I know but, in my defence, laziness is very rarely the case with being out here, it is because I've been busy & there's been lots to do! New photos are from Brian's birthday outing which was also Hallowe'en so that was fun :) first hallowe'en abroad too. A surprising number of my students also knew a little about Hallowe'en as well; they knew it was on October 31st which I was quite impressed by! On the monday, we went to...