I was woken by a call from Miss Wang saying that the owner of the apartment wanted to leave something ready for when they move back in next week.I told her I was going to school but I would be back at lunch time.I went to Happy Tree but as I approached, Teacher Zhang started yelling and ran away from me across the playground.When she finally ran back to me she told me the school had thought I had already gone to England and they didn't need me to teach.She asked when I was coming back to China and I said I had no plans to return.She seemed quite sad and said she had thought I was coming back to teach there after the Spring Festival.We shook hands and said goodbye and then I went back home.

The apartment owner knocked on the door and when I opened it, several Chinese men were there carrying bags and furniture.It took them over an hour to bring everything up to the fifth floor and put it in the spare room.When Miss Wang had said they were bringing 'something' it would have been more accurate if she had said they were bringing 'everything'.My apartment was suddenly full of more spare beds, desks, wardrobes, bags of clothes, kitchen utensils and all kinds of other things.But it's OK… only one week to go and I'm out of here!

After the owner had left I went to Wanhuatong for my final class with the children.I shared some teddy bear shape biscuits that my grandparents had sent me in my Christmas parcel.They were excited to be trying food from England.I really liked the kids in this school and I was sad to say goodbye to them.