To Nancy, Fay, Ella, Holly and Holly: I am currently listening to 'Rosie's Gone' and absolutely creasing with laughter, thank you so much, I LOVE it! I hope Outlook was amazing girls, I can't bring myself to properly scroll through all your photos because I'm so envious, I would have loved to be there with you all. Nance and Fay, you're in Amshterdam right now having a waffle and a crepe I assume.... hope its really good fun. Meanwhile back in China.... We have ...

Hello! I am currently writing from our apartment which is on the sixth floor (with no lift) on our new school campus. We are here! The weather has been swelteringly hot, but today some rain has come and made it a lot cooler and comfortable. We have been here now for four days and our Chinese colleagues are all very helpful and friendly. We have been taken out for meals, and have been to karaoke bars twice now (they absolutely love it out here, as well as waltzi...

So I am in China! It is so different but I am really enjoying the experience of it. I am staying in a hotel in Beijing where we are with about 40 other english teachers who are all really on a level and generally very good company (bar a few weirdos). We have been really thrown in at the deep end. We have been teaching classes of 13 year olds english with no prior preparation! On the first day I was so nervous and the weather was so muggy that I was sweating lo...

So I am in China! It is so different but I am really enjoying the experience of it. I am staying in a hotel in Beijing where we are with about 40 other english teachers who are all really on a level and generally very good company (bar a few weirdos). We have been really thrown in at the deep end. We have been teaching classes of 13 year olds english with no prior preparation! On the first day I was so nervous and the weather was so muggy that I was sweating lo...