Hello again!Soo...we spent the last day in Pingyao walking the walls, checking out some old skool banks and visiting the Shaunglin temple...For the longest while I kept thinking that the drivers of these little buggies powered by the front-section of a motorbike were trying to tout our business to take us to the Shaolin temple...which be a good 200+ KM away!The temple itself was very pleasant...and very different to what I had seen before. The statues looked like...

Ni hao ma?! Only a few more days of adventures in Chinaland left! Nooo! I'm not quite so sure how I feel about it. I have had such an awesome time out here...with so many adventures. Some days I don't want it to end. Some days, I feel slightly ready to go home and see loved ones again. Sometimes I want to run right back to the academy...sod the aches and pains! Sometimes I have, admittedly (mum can testify), been caught saying I hate it! Hehe. But only when...

Sooo... I managed to make it out of Qufu. The staff at the hostel were sooooo lovely! They all came and carried my bags out to the cab for me and waved me off! What loveliness! ...Or maybe after 3 nights they were just dying to get rid of me...! One or t'other! No, they were really nice. I had felt really pants one day (due to the Shanghai disease-thing I had contracted) and so had left my sight-seeing earlier than planned. When I returned to the hostel I deci...

Well, I had written about the end of my time at the academy, but for some reason I cannot access it! Doh. But it went something along the lines of the following:We eventually finished staff form despite the dodgy right knee and Martin and I graded on the brand new stage, Martin being the first ever person, and I the second. It wasn't my best performance, but I was just pleased to have finished and to be able to grade! A few days beforehand, Master Wei came up to ...

New pics up, but updated blog coming soon! Work in progress....it's been AGES again...so check back tomorrow and prepare yourself for possibly the longest entry yet. Off to get some munch as haven't really eaten for 24H. Mwah to all! xxxxx