It was raining so I took my umbrella, but it was really windy and I had to put it down.I did my morning classes at Flower Garden and then went home.As I walked towards my apartment, I couldn't see the path for tree and leaves and branches, I peered around it and there was an entire tree down on both sides of my apartment entrance.I had to go around the back of the apartment block and use the horrible dark tunnel for the first time to access my stairway.It is fu...

I had work all day at the Baby Genius Kindergarten but during my lunch break I had agreed to meet Binging.I don't really know what 15 years old girls do (in China or anywhere) so I gave her the choice.She suggested I could go to the bookshop with her. I wasn't sure of where I was supposed to meet her and asked if I could put her on the phone to a taxi but she got a bit confused, so I just handed the phone to the driver anyway and hoped they would figure it out ...

I had work in the morning at the Flower Garden Kindergarten.I miss my Sunday mornings in London, sleeping off the hangover, eating beans and cheese on toast, maybe going for a walk… it seems like a distant memory from my current weekends.The videos at Flower Garden are not as modern and appealing as the ones at Baby Genius. Just check out what I was dancing around the classroom teaching today when I should have been in bed… http://www.tudou.com/programs/vie...

I had to get up early to collect my passport from Miss Wang.It felt good to finally have it back!Then I went back to bed.Ruth contacted me to say the other foreigners, Patrick, Dean and Shush, had invited us to meet them at a street barbeque this evening.The weather had turned to rain again but it seemed like a fun idea so we decided to go.I met Ruth and we waited in town for them to tell us where to meet them.We were waiting ages and starting to get very hungr...

I taught classes in the morning and took some clothes in to wash at Genius Baby.I told Miss Wang I was planning to visit Jinan at the weekend so I would need my passport back.She said I could come and pick it up on Saturday morning.We've all been without passport since we arrived in China as they were sent off from Beijing for the visa extension and then sent to Miss Shi and never handed back! I got a bus into town to do some shopping.When I had finished I went...