So last night we visited a nearby school to help the students with their english. It was great - they are quite amazing, some had only been learning for 3 months and they were practically fluent! The school motto is "Success in English. Success in Life.", basically if they do not learn english they can never work for a European Company which offer better pay, hours, conditions and holidays than the Taiwanese, Korean and Chinese companies. Some of them have had to...

This is the forst chance i've had to e-mail since sunday, as it has been a very hectic 44 hours...... MON: Up at 6am to get bus from Hong Kong to boat terminal (me and Lisa must have looked a sight running down the main street of Hong Kong at 6am on a monday morning in flip flops to get tissue paper and water for the journey!). A 3 hour hydrofoil trip gets us to the Chinese border where we board the next bus. Then onto the overnight train to Guilan - supri...