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...

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...

So yes, I'm still in Stoke. But I want to keep a record of the full experience, and it would definitely be missing something if I didn't include the preparations! Three weeks to go and things are starting to get real. I'm onto the final stretch of my budget, everything is being cancelled left right and centre, phone contracts, gym memberships, car insurance etc.I gave up on my World of Warcraft submission a few weeks ago, now that was hard! I have a passport, c...