We had noodles for breakfast at Genius Baby- I hate to say it but I'm already getting used to these non-breakfast foods in the morning.We were met by Teacher Shi and Echo.Debbie and Ruth were also with them, it was good to see them again. We went to Golden Childhood Kindergarten where I was to give my first lesson.I hadn't realised that the other English teachers from our scheme would be watching and I felt very self-conscious.I kind of rushed through my lesso...

Miss Wang, Jen and I went for breakfast at the Genius Baby Kindergarten.We sat in one of the classrooms with children running around us while we ate.Then we went to the Head teachers office to try to find out what we are supposed to be doing and where and when we start teaching.Nothing was really made any clearer. We started to prepare for our lessons tomorrow.I had a phone call from Echo, she told me she will be assisting me with tomorrow's 'public show' whic...

I still couldn't face 'showering' in the toilet as it absolutely stinks in there.It doesn't have a working flush and has to be sloshed with a bucket of water afterwards instead of flushing.I felt so dirty and at least wanted to wash my hair so I washed over the little sink outside the toilet and felt dirtier than before.On the way to the bus stop Teacher Wang tried to help me top up my phone at a China mobile stand but they couldn't do it because it was bought ...

Miss Wang had made us a Chinese breakfast of dumplings, cold noodles with pickled cucumber, nuts in sauce, plus some rice in water.It was all a bit yucky for morning food.She also made us egg and tomato which is a simple Chinese dish, that's more like it for breakfast!The Doorbell rang, and Teacher Shi, Teacher Neil and Suzanne were there, ready to take us back to New Concepts School The teachers there were lovely and only two of them (Echo and Alina) spoke En...

I got up early to get the coach to Beijing West Train station.It was a very hot day and the coach dropped us off far away from the main entrance so we all had to drag our luggage through crowds of people just to get into the train station.We passed through security and things got no better, the entire train station was full of crowds of people, it was worse than being at London Paddington at 5pm on Xmas eve last year. I got scratches up my legs from other peopl...