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13th February
I got up very early to go with Lisa to meet the new foreign teacher. We arrived in Changsha about 8am and found Kevin hanging around the train station. We had a chat in the taxi on the way home. He is 23 and a student from Salt Lake City, Utah studying Chinese and Maths. He'd lived in Taiwan for two years as a missionary when he finished high school so his Chinese is pretty good.
When we arrived in Yiyang we left him at his apartment on the other campus then Lisa went shopping and I went back to my apartment for a rest I was not used to such an early morning!
Later that afternoon Kevin called me and I met him in town and we went for a walk, bought some food and went to the bank. After walking around for about two hours we got tired so went home and I had an un-eventful evening.
14th February
Woo my birthday! I cleaned up a little in the morning waiting for Matt and Jonny to arrive. When they called to say they were in Yiyang I took a taxi to the bus station and found them pretty easily. We then caught a bus back to the uni and went for lunch at the nice restaurant. Me and Jonny had a beer each and that set us off for the rest of the day!
We grabbed a bottle of wine afterwards and went to hang out in my apartment until we were to meet Lisa and Kevin around 6pm. When we went to meet them Lisa was busy and said she would catch up with us later but Kevin met us at the gate and we went for some good ol' BBQ. I hadn't had Hunan BBQ for a long time mmmmmmmm!
We went back to my apartment about 8pm when Rich arrived (yay!) and I took him some fried rice. Mum and dad called which was nice to hear from them :D
Once Rich was ready and had eaten we called Lisa and we went with her and another teacher into town. We dropped Kevin off at his apartment then went to He and She, our fave and happening night club (haha).
Lisa disappeared for a little while and came back with a birthday cake for me :D I was very excited because I didn't think I'd get a cake ! She also bought me some eye shadow which was really nice because I'd been looking at it when we went shopping together.
We had some more beers, did some dancing and then left at about 11pm when they close... silly country.
Back on campus we had some more BBQ then continued having a party in my apartment. At about 3am the conversation was getting pretty intelligible so we gave up and called it a night.
15th February
In bed.
16th February
Back to work! This was my first day of teaching and it went quite well even though Monday's are my longest day and I was pretty nervous again!
I met Rich for lunch and we went to our favourite cafe at the West Gate, it was nice to be back :)
I had a new class that afternoon so I had to name a few more students. Still no-one wants to be called Pam (sorry mum!) but I did manage to sneak a Colin (Murray) in there hehe.
I was pretty tired afterwards and just took it easy once I'd finished for the day.
17th February
This was a very lazy day. I had one class, I got up early, taught the class then went back to bed for a nap. Got up in the afternoon and just messed on the internet!
18th February
To be honest, I've had a very lazy week!
I had one class on Wednesday, just before lunch. When I finished my class I called Rich and we went to the canteen for lunch. I also found Kevin outside one of the teaching buildings and he joined us which was cool to catch up and hear how he was getting on with the teaching and the craziness!
I spent the rest of the day just chilling out, building a website, and thinking about what to do when I go home toe England...
19th February
I had a late start because I don't teach on a Thursday until 2pm. It's a hard life :p
After my classes I met Rich and we went for some West Gate rice. When we got there we found Kevin again wandering around looking a bit lost so he came with us. It had been a late finish for everyone and we were all pretty tired.
After the rice, me and Rich grabbed some BBQ and put the world to rights before going back and I had a relatively early night!
20th February
I had two morning classes, Friday is my second early start of the week. I was pretty tired, my sleep has been a bit messed up this week (I blame the rubbish cold wet weather) and after my classes I had some noodles for lunch then decided to have a "nap".
I woke up at 11pm and realised my sleeping patterns were all over the place! I decided to get up and had a good chat with everyone online which was really nice to catch up with people from home!
21st February
To try to fix my sleep pattern I went back to bed about 6am. I slept until about 11am then got up and had some breakfast. Hopefully it will have worked!
I've not done much today, I'm meeting Rich a bit later but it's so cold, it's nice to curl up in bed so I grabbed my laptop and thought it was a good time to update my blog!
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