I had to be in school for 7:30am so I decided to get a taxi rather than risk the bus.I don't think I have mentioned before, the timetables on display on the bus stops are all in Chinese so getting the bus requires a lot of guess work and a lot of luck.The stupid taxi picked up three other customers on the way and dropped them all off first, but I didn't have my phrase book and I was sat in the back of the taxi so I couldn't even gesture to him to hurry up.Lucki...

We got up early to bowls of egg fried rice for breakfast with Miss Wang and her friend.This is surprisingly good for a morning after beer drinking.After we had eaten we were shown our new apartment in the same yard.We saw with our own eyes it has a shower and toilet!!It had a broken washing machine but we were told we can use the one at Miss Wang's place or the one at the Genius Baby Kindergarten, which will save our water and electricity usage anyway so is not...

I slept in until 9:30am which by home standards is early for a Saturday, but after the week of early starts I'd had it felt quite late.I went to the supermarket with Jen and got a Chinese equivalent of a pick & mix.On the way back to the apartment we got some food from a street stall.It was like a fresh pitta filled with salad and it was really nice.Then we got Bus 5 to the local park, we sat by the lake and watched the children playing around with pedalo b...

Teacher Shi met me at the yard gate; we got a taxi then a bus to a Kindergarten in town.We went into the school and met the headmaster.She didn't speak any English either.I was taken to a class to give a public show and this time it went really well.I'd taken some of my stickers along and the kids absolutely loved them.I also showed them the little toy panda I have and there were lots of giggles.We went back to the headmaster's office and she handed me a big pi...

I had to be up early as Teacher Shi was supposed to be coming to collect me from the apartment at 7am.I was ready before 7am and sat on the sofa waiting but accidentally fell asleep.I was woken by my phone ringing at 7:30am so I answered it to the sound of Chinese.I tried saying I didn't understand, but Teacher Shi didn't understand me either.Then I heard an English voice; Teacher Shi had put Debbie on the phone.But Debbie didn't understand Teacher Shi either...