Today was National Day, the anniversary of when the People's Republic of China was founded by Mao Zedong on 1st October 1949. As I hadn't got home until past 6am I slept in quite late.When I woke up I took the lid off the many-legged bug and pushed him down the drain with my mop.I went to meet Ruth near her apartment and we went for dinner, then back to her apartment to watch a movie.Just as the film had started there was a knock at the door, it was Binging.We...

Between my classes I met Echo outside her school and we went to the Construction Bank so she could help me open an account there.Again it took about an hour by the time she had completed the forms and answered everybody's questions about why I am in China.But I now successfully, but pointlessly, have two Chinese bank accounts. As I was leaving Flower Garden I saw the flying red man again.No matter what, I was determined to get a photo and prove it.I grabbed my...

I'd invited Ruth to come and watch one of my classes so she could see how different it is to teaching her college students.During the lesson she witnessed them grabbing my leg, punching my bum, jumping up and down yelling at Bobo (the character on the computer programme) and just the general noise and chaos! After class I asked her if she had mentioned getting a haircut during the class of hers which I had observed on Saturday.She said no.So I told her I think...

I had to teach the kids in one of my classes the word for friends.The flashcard showed two children shaking hands, so I tried to get them to shake hand with the person on their left then the person on their right, going round in the circle.It went quite well in the first class I tried it, they all shook hands with each other while saying the word 'friends' and it was really cute.Then I tried it in a later lesson and the headmaster appeared in the class.I don'...

During my classes the headmaster came to watch which made me worry after having already lost one job!She gave me the course books and CD's to take home which should be quite useful.Teacher Wang took me to the bank to open a bank account at the Agricultural (ABC) Bank and this took over an hour just to open the account because of all the queuing and questioning.Teacher Wang completed the forms on my behalf and had to redo all of the forms twice.She had written F...