Saturday 18th April After an uneventful Friday, me and Rich woke up early on Saturday morning and met John near to Xiufeng park at about 8:30am. We went to the North bus station and took a bus to John's home town in the countryside, Nan Xian Mao Cao Jie Zhang. When we arrived we caught a taxi to John's house, which was apparently a motorbike made to look like a car. It was the slowest, funniest car I've ever been in haha. We said hello to John's family and the...

I'm getting this blog written before I forget! Matt's visit was a lot of fun, but I need to start a little bit before it... Warning: Is very long!!!! Tuesday 31st March I can't remember this week too well because it was a while ago. On Tuesday we had our first Chinese lesson! (finally...) It was really good to have some proper things to learn and our teacher, Adelle, is really nice. After class we went out for dinner with the students who helped Rich when ...

Friday 20th March The end of the week was pretty quiet. On Saturday evening we planned to go out for a meal with Panda, Lisa and Kevin but in the end it was just me and Rich. Well... it started nicely! We went to Jono's again, had some western food and some nice red wine then decided to go dancing. We had a change of scenery and went to Bar 77. It was OK but I decided to leave early. When I got back to campus I had a phone call from one of my students on Rich...

Again I'm really behind with this blog. I will skip over the weeks because I can't really remember it and not much has happened anyway. Monday 23rd February This was the second week of classes and it started to feel like I'd never had a break! The weather was horrible and my sleep patterns didn't improve, it's warmer to sleep in the day! Early (very.... a stupid idea by Rich!) on Saturday morning, me Rich and Kevin got a taxi to Changsha. We arrived at the hot...

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...