Another parcel arrived from Mum.This one had my hat, scarf and mitt-gloves.Just in time as the weather this week had suddenly got really cold!The kids were fascinated by the mitt-gloves.I found that if I tucked my fingers inside the mitten part, then pushed them out really quickly and said 'boo' it would make the kids giggle.Simple things. I was working at Flower Garden today and for one of my classes, the song was '4 little baby ducks'.The teacher had prepare...

The vocabulary I was teaching in Genius Baby today was to do with movement (walk, run, jump, crawl) and the kids were getting bored so I got them to act out each action and make lots of noise saying the correct words.When it came to 'crawl' they all dived off of their chairs and into a big heap on their hands and knees, screeching '"crawl, crawl, crawl".I don't know what it was about the sight of all these kids messing around but I caught the eye of t...

After worrying about running out of time to see everything I want to see in China, I decided to do something about it and change my flight to the 27th January.I should now have 10 days once I finish teaching to travel to Xi'an, Shanghai and Beijing. I had a phone call from Chinese John asking if I would like to meet for a drink and talk about the book we were both reading- Wuthering Heights.It amused me to be receiving such a phone call from a guy… that woul...

The most eventful thing which happened today was when I was preparing my dinner.I cut a green bell-pepper in half and wondered why the seeds were all brown and soft.I started scraping out the slimy seeds from one half, and then noticed something moving in the other half.I jumped out of my skin.Then I nudged it to see what it was.There was a caterpillar about 2cm long crawling around in there.I didn't want to kill it but I also didn't want it in my house, so I f...

The conversations went on so long that Ashley and I didn't get taxi until after 6am.We didn't even go back to my apartment, we went straight for breakfast!I started to see flashing lights as though I might be getting a migraine, but after something resembling couscous soup the lights went away and luckily a headache did not develop.Ashley came back to the apartment to grab his backpack and then went off to the bus station for the next part of his journey.I went...