I agree with Gregg, top man! In fact I can't wait to find a nodding Sean doll on Ebay

As you may tell from my email, i'm slightly stressed. Gave Mum her card and some flowers today (you owe me £4 for them ;) ) and she loved them and your special message :) In return I was given a full bottle of Disaronno :S She says that all of the terrorists have been stopped now...For some reason, I don't quite believe her :/

Err, thankyou for posting my Maths result to your Blog Message Board...It was sweet of you :S

You said in your blog that you were gunna organise a footy game and buy a ball...I don't understand why you've gone to the other side of the world and you're still pretending to like football :S

All my love
xxx

Sean, Mr Monks, or should I call you God. It has come to my notice ( Ella) that your becoming a bit big for your boots and that you should learn the chinese for old big head. You need to have a word with the airline who are flying you home because they might not have enough headroom. I gather your now showing students emails that describe you as handsome. Be careful Sean you're in China now. I suspect they're far ahead of dolly the sheep and specialise in finding what they believe are quality goods replicating them and flooding the market with cheap exports. Before you know it you'll walk around the corner and run into another Sean, an empty shell of a man highly competitive and very vain ( yes an exact copy) People will come back from the market with three unwatchable dvd,s and a Sean. oh and whats with the toilet stuff, sounds to me like it was indoors and that you don't have to share it with the neighbours so stop complaining. p.s remember a dog isn't just for xmas it's for any other special occassion or maybe just Sunday lunch. G

We believe immediately you understood every word in Dutch.. So if you complete your whole Chinese journey, come to Holland and we will teach all together in one school... Would be so much fun (and even more fun than the Chinese bottle of wine)

Hope you're ok and maybe you should change your background: snow instead of fishes lol

Hope you're not toooooo cold otherwise: COME VISIT US!

ciaociao from Nepal

How your blog brings back life as Student teachers at West London Institute of Higher Education, well maybe in a parellel universe. Glad to hear there's an actual Maths genius in the Monks household. Do your students have access to dictionaries? Gentleman? Love H&G

Good people of the message board,

My brother scored 98% in his Maths exam!

End of message.

I'm suffering the lack of blog update, don't even pretend you're too busy to write!

But Sean: who needs an iron when you can have assorted Soviet memorabilia?

Love you. Miss you. xxxxxxx

Nana Alice: "Missing you so much. Waiting for my next hug. Hope to see you soon. I'm missing my hugs. Keep your beard trimmed!"

Nana Pat: "Missing you like crazy. Nans kitchen is fabulous. Lots more room (Thankyou). I've put up a stringy curtain over the pantry doorway so I don't have to stare at the mess inside. It looks great. Please send us your address and a nice letter. I'm heading to the shops now to buy a English-Chinese Dictionary! Me and E have been having some of the recipes from the cook book and i'm bloody good at cooking now! When you come back, i'll cook something nice for you...By then, I should have worked out the 'flaws'. I sent Ella a few texts when you first left because I was needlessly worrying about you. She was very nice and assured me you would be having a fabulous time. Sarah (garrrrrrrrglhlel) (hairdresser) said "Tell Sean hello from me". Missing you loads. Lots of love. Can't wait to here from you and see you as soon as E sorts out Skype. If you don't like it there, please come home...You can kip with me and Nanny Alice. All my love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sadly for you we failed the test to produce letters for you, now I suspect our feeble attempts to keep in touch via message board will be monitored - we mean well and you'll now feature on my i-google log in in a vague attempt to remind me. We've just had a blow by blow account of a friends 3 week tour of China so you've got competition - interestingly racist smiles! Hilary

I'm really enjoying trying out the different faces!

Well, you must be seriously unimpressed by the extra teaching but hey ho, at least you'll be busy. Plus, I agree with Helen. However, this is for purely selfish purposes as I won't be coming out there until the beginning of June :)

I expect a long, detailed, work-relieving e-mail to be waiting in my inbox at 8am on Monday morning...

Xx