So here I am sitting down for the second time today to write this blog post, because this infuriating website decided to refresh when I tried to save my last copy.. so I will try and rewrite what I had before, which was of course brilliant, hilarious and undoubtedly the best blog read yet.. I guess you could say my problems all began last week, I'll start from where I left off... our visa problems. You would have thought it would be a fairly clear and simple pro...

So it's been quite a while since I last posted... It's gotten to the point where I cant really remember where I left off, i'll try my best.. Pizza, in Urumqi... mm havent had any since and I've got a real craving right now. Although there are places in Kuitun that you can go for western style food, (youngpai cafe, kfc and best food) they arent quite able to do pizza like in pizza hut. Anyway... Since I last blogged I've been really busy, I think... Teaching as ...

Yes this post is literally just going to be praise for Pizza Hut. Returning from Kashgar was possibly the worst trip I have ever made. By the time we arrived in Urumqi It had been 60 hours with less than 4 hours sleep. Despite having had pizza twice in the previous week, pizza hut was still the motivation that made that journey bearable. I mean yes, the other 9 Xinjiang volunteers are wonderful (some of them anyway) but spending 30 hours on a very confined wooden...

Looking on a map I think I quite underestimated the time it would take to get here. Last Tuesday we began the first leg of our epic journey and travelled to Urumqi to stay with the volunteers in Bagang and the volunteers from Karamay. We spent the night watching american pie and drinking rather too much wusu as a result of a miss purchase of 2 crates. Suffice to say it was really great to see the other volunteers. The next morning we woke rather early to catch a ...

The leaves are falling... Last week the sun was shining and temperatures didnt drop below twenty, now its starting to get cold. Overnight seemingly most of the leaves have fallen from the trees, and im finding I have to wear a jumper in the evenings. There was rain last night which seemed strange because in the 4 weeks we have been here it has only rained once. 1 month in Kuitun, the weeks have passed incredibly quickly, between teaching and everything else that...