I received a phone call about 2:30pm from Hong Yan saying "welcome my home" and I said "now??" and she said "yes". The little girl is called Liu Le Xuan and when I got to the apartment, I met her other grandmother.They explained one was her mother's mother and one was her father's mother.The grandmother on her fathers' side lives in their apartment, the other grandmother lives somewhere else.We all sat around the coffee table in th...

I taught at Happy Tree in the morning and went to Wanhuatong in the afternoon. Three of the kids had their fingers in their nostrils at one point and I was getting fed up they were more interested in the contents of their noses than the lesson.I walked along the row of children and got each of them to remove their fingers.I noticed one girl had blood on the end of her finger, by the time I turned around to tell Sherry and turned back, her nose had begun to gu...

As I was walking back to my apartment after lunch, a lady and her daughter stopped me and tried talking to me but they didn't know much English.They were trying to get me to go with them to their apartment.First of all I said no, but they seemed quite keen to try and talk to me and kept saying 'welcome my home' so I decided to go along and see what they wanted.I followed them to their apartment, which is in the building directly opposite mine.The grandmother wa...

The Wanhuatong Kindergarten liked the lessons I had given on Saturday so Sherry asked me to come in during the week as well.Today I had my usual lessons at Flower Garden, and then had to fit in an hour at Wanhuatong in my lunch break.Sherry is the only English speaking teacher at the school and she comes to all my classes and assists.She is brilliant, much better than any of the assistants at the other schools.She listens as I give the children my instruction...

I had another parcel arrive from Mum.Inside was a Cadbury's advent calendar, just in time for the 1st December!I had the usual teacher's session at lunchtime, trying to teach some of the Genius Baby teachers to speak more English.They don't ever seem like they want to be there and I find it difficult getting them to speak.We'd chosen the topic of food for this week's session and so I took in some Green and Blacks chocolate for them to try.They said they thought...