I was in my bedroom at lunchtime and I heard someone come in to the apartment.Poppy doesn't usually come home during the afternoon so I thought I should investigate.I found Poppy was in her room packing up her things.I couldn't really understand what she was saying to me so I turned on my computer.She typed to me she had to leave and she didn't want to go.I felt quite sad that she was leaving, I'd kind of got used to her being around.She said the school needed ...

I was sat in Miss Wang's classroom between classes. The kids had baby-tomatoes as their morning snack. One of the teaching assistants walked past me and as she did, she put a baby-tomato in my mouth! It was so unexpected being hand fed like that I nearly choked on it.

Ruth and I met up with Echo near the lake.Echo was in a bit of a panic because she had arranged to meet her students too, but we couldn't find them.She told us that in Liaocheng, children are sometimes stolen.Of course I asked her why?She said they are sold.So I asked who buys them.She said Chinese people who are unable to have their own children.She also said young women can be taken and sold as wives.Luckily we found all students.Echo bought some treats for t...

I taught classes at Happy Tree in the morning.In the afternoon it was my first time going to Wanhuatong by myself and it's a lot further away than my other schools so I took a taxi to be sure.The taxi driver tried talking to me but he couldn't really speak English. I gathered that he had a child and he was asking if I would be their English tutor.I swapped numbers with him and tried to explain that I would get one of my Chinese friends to call him. In the even...

I had my classes the opposite way round today-with Flower Garden in the morning and Genius Baby in the afternoon.The parents were coming in to watch at Genius Baby so I had to sit in Miss Wang's class.The parents in her class pay the highest fees so the headmaster wanted them to see me in the classroom.The ridiculous thing is I don't actually give any classes to these kids because Miss Wang is their English teacher.I had to give them all their snacks and when I...