Today me and Richard planned to lie in then take a late bus into town about 11am. At 9:30am Lisa was knocking on my door expecting us to go to the bank! She had not mentioned anything before and I was still asleep. I get ready quickly whilst she waited and Rich joined us after about 15 mins. There was some drama when we tried to leave and Rich realised he'd left his key in his room and was locked out. We had to wait for the police to come and unlock the door! W...

WED 27 AUG 2008 The next morning there were a lot of people looking worse for wear. I was feeling considerably better than the morning before, and I did my class to the Chinese students first to get it out of the way.It went ok, it was pretty easy for them but it went quite smoothly.The rest of the morning went slowly I was so tired, and so was the rest of the class and there was always various sleeping teachers including teacher Jon. That morning we finished l...

Ok the following is a catch up of my first week. It's pretty long, but I have been writing it on my laptop until I had internet access. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MON 18 AUG 2008 Well I made it :) After a day or two of travel and a lot of flying stress! I left home with my mum, dad and sister at about 10am on Monday morning (18th). After a super speedy check in and some sad goodbyes I disappeared up the escalator o...