Had a reasonable day although 2 very chatty classes. Had to confiscate one girls knitting after she had been told 3 times to put it away. Even after I had taken it she stole it back and I had to go and collect it again and carry it around with me!! This evening I think I shocked Mrs Wu by telling her about life in England. Somehow the conversation came around to the fact that people in England sometimes have children without being married. Apparantly this is a bi...

Got up early to get into school to finish off my lesson plan. The start of the lesson was pretty boring - teaching types of humour from the text book, so I decided to do something a bit more exciting for the second half. I took the song 'Ironic' which tied back to my theme of humour, and wrote the lyrics for the chorus on a piece of paper at the front of the class. Then I put the students into groups of 4 and they had to run up, memorise the words and then go ...

The plan had been to get the first bus to Beijing this morning straight from our night out, but at 5:00 this morning we both realised we weren't going to make it through the day and came home to crash! Lost most of the day to sleep and then got up to finish my lesson plan for the week and catch up on emails.

Meet Hannah for lunch and then we went to the salon to get our nails done - I choose a very subtle colour so that the teachers wouldn't notice!! This evening we decided to have a big night out at Disco 9 given the fact that our time here is running out. We got a great welcome as always and we were invited to join one group for KTV which we did for an hour. When we got turfed out of Disco 9 we went to the bar across the courtyard where we had more drinks and fo...

Did some lesson prep at home and then went into school to make sure the computers there could accept the same format music files as this would otherwise ruin my lesson for next week! This evening we walked up to the pergola to watch the sun setting over the lake in the hope of getting some good pictures. It was freezing cold and the sunset was very disappointing. We did a music lesson this evening with the boys which I though would be really interesting for th...