Well this begins the Straw Dragons blog which detailing the experiences of its author while teaching English for a year in a Chinese highschool. As it currently stands i am not actually in what its natives modestly call zhong gao or middle nation (as in the centre of the earth). Instead ui am sitting on a sturdy suitecase, proably taking up more room than i need, waiting for the gate of my transfer fligh to Beijing in Abu Dabi to open. Given then that whatever exciting/tepid adventures i may experience haven't actually happened yet i have very little to write about.

So i will simply finish by saying that for whatever reason you are reading this, either because you know me and care enough to follow my often ramberling steam of thought or because you have simply stumbled across this in the recesses of the net. I hope that you find what you see to be at least in part amusing.