Well WHAT A DAY! Had about an hour sleep last night, then up early for starting teaching by 8am. Had an aweful headache all day, but that I could cope with. Unfortunately having a room full of loud children doesn't help but oh well. It was when I looked at my arms at around 11am and noticed my skin was turning black that I knew I had a major problem. Literally, black bruising and black coming out of the pores all over my shoulders and arms. Saw the on site comm...

Well, what an entertaining evening! I apologise in advance; today's writing isn't the best but its 2am and I'm tired!!! I, TamPan, Joshua and Sweety had a lovely relaxed day today- like a real holiday! Had an accidental 30minutes lie-in (what pleasure!!), then an hour of Chinese (I still can't understand why Z makes a J sound), then an hour of Teacher Training along with an hour of event planning. A delicious lunch (once again made by our old kitchen angel) star...

So, just when I thought today was going to be incredibly uneventful, Sweety turned up. I should explain. I left for lunch today with my room a tip, as I wasn't expecting any visitors, so you can imagine my surprise and horror when Flower arrived with my new roommate/ teaching assistant. A super quick 10 second clean-up occurred where, I am proud to say, I managed to make the room reasonably inhabitable. Once I gave her a whistle stop tour of our room, I left her...

Hullo all. Well, WHAT A DAY! I should probably start first with yesterday. After getting up very early ready for Chinese at 8, you can imagine my shock (and delight) when I found both Josh and TamPan fast asleep and Flower nowhere to be seen. After waking the boys up (momentary panic on their behalf- fits of giggles on mine), having a lovely cold shower and going for a morning walk, I returned to find, well, no-one. I did some self-study, painted my nails, and t...

So, a relaxed two days here in Pingjiang. We've walked most of the city but we still induce staring, gasps and "他们是白色的!" from children. At first I thought it a tad rude but now it's just plain hilarious! I and Joshua spent quite a few hours yesterday walking trying to find a supermarket, which was great as we failed miserably, but got to see many different areas of town- some very interesting, some completely undesired. Yesterday we spent most of th...