An early start for lessons at the Korean School and it was absolutely awful! I thought I would be happy to teach whatever they asked me to, but it's horrible to be teaching something which the students are bored by when you feel the same way!! Practically dragged them through the lesson and was relieved when my stint was over! The trouble is there is no way of making it interesting. The one good thing that came out of the morning was that I finally received m...

I don't work on a Friday, but I wanted to catch up with my students about their essay and so I decided to go in when Hannah did at 11. I hung around the office for an hour and then went to get some lunch and took it to the park to eat it. We had the most bizarre moment in the park when some guy came over to us and started reading Hannah's timetable - then about 6 other people started coming over to take a look. I don't even know if the people all knew each other,...

Got into work this morning to find 2 students at my desk wanting me to help them with an essay the had to write for a United Nations group. The subject was "Sustainable Development of Megacities" - one had to write about Sri Lanka and the other Portugal. Having read through the documentation they gave me I was astounded at the level - even I had to look up some of the words! But it was quite interesting and so I spent my lunchtime researching it and wri...

Spent the morning researching formal testing for English as one of my students had sent me a letter asking for some advice about the requirements to get into an English University. It was interesting to see what was required and I managed to find some on line tests so I had a go at the listening one. I was horrified at the end to find I had only got 7 out of 10!! It wasn't that it was really difficult it was just that the questions were really ambiguous! Less...

Went into school a bit early today to see if I could try and find my post - I have been waiting on a couple of letters for about 4 weeks now! I'd asked a few people last week and been assured that they hadn't arrived but in China I'm never sure if a) they've understood the question and b) they've checked in the right place - so I thought I'd try again! I spoke to Charlie who picks up the post each day and asked him if he could ask the post staff to let him have...