About time you had some good luck. The apartment looks very swanky and if the cottage buying gods are with us maybe we can come and see it one day. You got there in the end but what a carry on!

Apartment is great. Really happy for you. Story reminds me to talk to the landlord at 4 sweethope it's Baltic here

New apartment sounds awesome.

The sessions with Teng sound like the ones Bill had with Lubo in Slovakia. The only difference is we never did get together with his family. Lubo kept scheduling meetings and his wife kept cancelling. By the way, good luck with your apartment!

An odd lot those chinese but as they say it takes all sorts to make the world go around. Funny episode.

Wow, Leighton. This blog and the pictures really take me back. Isn't China and "its way" just so totally different from anything else you've experienced? The people and the way we were received/percieved make China the least favorite place we lived. We're glad we had the experience but life was at times difficult.

Hey man got into this thru yer facebook link

good stuff but i think i need to go back to the start to get the full perspective

havin seen how much youve written i may have to rearrange my social life!!

And just when I thought it couldn't get any worse!

Oh god David is so useless. Good read though :)

these people would do my head in

how do you deal with it?

Thanks for your confidence and support Mary. Tracy means well and actually sounds much better than the other principles we hear about. All the same 'inept' and 'inexperienced' does pretty much cover it.

Mum - everybody who enters the school should wear these blue plastic covers over their shoes. I've never bothered but most people do.

Beautiful children. What is David wearing on his feet? Is it to protect the floor? The sooner he is gone the better!