Things have been a bit hectic today trying to sort various things out. There is a special fare thing coming up where loads of flights in SE Asia are discounted by 70% so I'm frantically trying to decide where I'm going to go in my 2 week May/June holidays. I was swithering between Indonesia or Vietnam and Laos but I've decided on the latter. Fellow Scott, Kirsty, will hopefully be accompanying me and we'll try to round up a few more. But in the mean time I'm just...

The weekends always seem to fly by and I find myself back teaching quicker than I would hope. This weekend was slightly chilled. On Friday night, Aman and I were picked up by Andy (one of the deaf guys), who then took us to the YMCA near KK to sit in on the organization of a new deaf club. They are trying to set up their own deaf club in the YMCA, which will be completely run by the deaf, instead of having their events organized by hearing people. When we arrived...

New mattresses!! Wooo! Well not exactly new, we kinda nicked them off the beds in the unused dorms. After one nights sleep I've already managed to make a human shaped imprint in the mattress- I'm thinking we're a lot heavier than the Malaysians. Anyyway. Last night was quite banterous. There were about 15 people there- mostly couples- 1 from Scotland, 1 from England, 2 from Sabah. There were a young newly wed couple, who showed us their wedding pics- looked fab...

Got a bit of a shock yesterday when Johnston approached me saying that he got some feedback from the classes about my lessons and it wasn't all good- as in it was pretty much all negative comments :-S. So, at first I felt a bit crap, cos I knew for a fact my classes have been overly rubbish so far. But then I decided just to be honest with the class and sit with them and explain everything. Soo, luckily, I had just received British magazines from cool aunty S...

Tis most definitely "back to reality" now that we're back at the school. Time flew by while we were in Hong Kong but now I can't explain how slowly time is going- don't think it was such a good idea buying a watch cos I'm constantly looking at it. Just feels like the next 4 and a bit weeks until our March holidays is gona be tough. Just thinking about getting to the East Coast of Sabah and seeing the orang-utans is making me feel positive. My classes have b...