Ok I'm really behind with my blog, so I'm just going to write about last week quickly!I wrote part of a blog last tuesday but I couldn't save it, and then the rest of my week was very busy. Last Tuesday I started my 4 weeks of tutoring for two students for a provincial english speaking competition. It was nice to just have two people to talk to had we had a chat about Yiyang and England, and differences between the countries. After the tutoring (which is at the...

I'm a little bit behind on my blog, so I'll try to catch up pretty quickly. Thursday was fairly long and tiring. I was up early to plan lessons, then I had a double lesson in the afternoon, one with a new class. Neither lesson went too badly, but I was pretty tired when I was finished. I stopped at the canteen on the way back to my apartment, and then had a chat to nanny and my mum before finishing my lesson plan and getting to bed. I had another double lesson ...

I woke up on Tuesday fairly early, even though I had no lessons, and did some more Yoga before sitting down to learn some Chinese characters. I made a list of characters for food that I would be likely to find on a menu, it it getting very frustrating not being able to read anything. That took up most of my morning and Rich was with Peter trying to sort out his computer, but when he was finished we decided to go shopping. We caught the bus into the centre of to...

Saturday... I pretty much did nothing it was great :) I messed about with some web design, and read and slept. We went to the cateen for tea and that was about the most excitment I got. Sunday morning I got a phonecall from Peter asking if we would like to look at our apartments. We'd been told by Lisa on Friday that it would be another 3-5 days until we could move in which had dissapointed us a lot. Because Peter had confused me, and I'd had a text from Grace...

Well things are settling down a little now. Yesterday I woke up early-ish and spent my morning checking my lesson, preparing part of my lesson plan for Friday, and surfing the internet. My writing class that afternoon was not too bad, my students were really nice and they were very excited about all the magazines I took to class.Their writing level was not as good as I was expecting, especially considering how high level the textbook is, so we have a lot of wo...