I have had better nights than last night.

I had an influx of beetles, and after catching about 10 under cups, I tried to work out where they were coming from. On further inspection they appeared to be crawling out of the window so I started to patch it up with scarves and zip-off trouser legs one bit at a time, until it seemed to slow them down.

I'm still not sure if it worked, but at least it's been a bit quieter so far tonight!

After my stressful late night, I woke up about 6:30am, had a shower and grabbed some breakfast before class. I'm not a fan of these 8am starts!!

My class went ok, it was my second lesson, and with the same class as the first one. I had enough content and we were able to skip throuh the sections they knew and just practice the speaking. They enjoyed the section about different places. They're a really nice group of students and they all seem very eager to learn about new places. One of them asked for a cultural and history lesson of Britain! So I'll have to remember to try and work one in (help dad!!).

After class I was feeling more relaxed, and I was enjoying being on a campus uni again :) I really felt like sitting in a cafe and having a coffee, one thing I am definitely missing!!

I got back to my room and met up with Rich who was going for a walk. I decided not to join him because I was still pretty tired, and decided to take my lesson planning out of my room, I was starting to get cabin fever. I went to what looked like a juice bar just near to our apartments, and when I got there, found the menu entirely in squiggles...

After a bit of pointing at cups I just randomly pointed at a squiggle on the menu and hoped for the best. I got a peach flavoured milky iced tea with jelly bits in. I'm really not a fan of these drinks, but they seem to be very popular! It wasn't too bad though, it was sickly after a while but better than it would seem on paper. It was very pleasant to sit in the cafe and read through some books instead of hiding in my room.

When I finished my drink and book I decided to go and find some food. I went to the gate and was heading to the shops when I got distracted by some street vendors. I'm not a fan of "meat on a stick" but I noticed a noodle stall at the end. There were two very friendly old women who kept talking mandarin at me, but I managed to order the tray of cold noodles we'd gotten in Changsha, with all the trimmings minus the chillis, go me!!

I went back to the apartment, ate my noodles, then had a nap. I was woken up by the doorbell for my apartment, and I had no idea what was going on. I could hear someone ouside, then my phone started ringing. It was Peter, but having just woken up I wasn't really in a state to get up and sort myself out and talk to someone, so I just left it and went back to sleep.

A while later I woke up properly and messaged Peter to apologise and see if it was anything important, I have had no reply so I guess it wasn't. I also contacted Lisa since it was strange not to see her for the day, I think we won't see her until the weekend unless we want to plan something.

Once I was sorted, Rich came over and we did some lesson planning. After we had got some decent plans we decided to go for a walk to the shop and then to the canteen for tea. I faffed about in the shop a lot, and Rich ended up leaving and meeting me about 10 mins later by the apartments.

I really got myself sorted though! We both bought a tennis raquet since the tennis courts are free to use. I'm getting really fed up of cakes and biscuits, so I did some improvising, bought some bananas for breakfast, bought some tomatoes, crackers, coffee, bread and eggs! (Yay I have a microwave). I also bought a food bowl, a washing up bowl, washing up liquid, a sturdy notebook and some paper for class, it was a good shop :)

I met Rich and we went to the canteen to buy some food. We were told we couldn't pay by cash, and had to buy some cards from a guy sitting at a table. I gave him some money and he gave me some cards and then I used them to pay for my food and got given some more as change. I'm not really sure what the point of them is, or how much they're worth, but I got food! I'll work it out later I hope...

We had another quick shop stop to the one next to the canteen for a bottle of beer, and some milk for my scrambled eggs :)

At the apartment we ate and had a bit of a chat and a beer, before we decided to call it a night. Lie in tomorrow hopefully! My lesson isn't until after dinner :)