Merry Christmas everyone. It has been a busy few days here in Changsha with all the festive activities that we were involved in. CHRISTMAS EVE - just a normal morning, teaching as per usual, but we went out for lunch to a fish restaurant with the other teachers from our office. The fish was really fresh, we picked it ourselves out of the tanks. Was given the afternoon of, so we caught up on some well deserved sleep, energising ourselves for the night. This invol...

its been a while since my last blog, feel like i haven't really done much except for teaching. Obviously been teaching christmas to the kids, we've been making cards, watching films and playing games. All of which have been mostly fun, did make a handful of kids cry when watching the snowman, as i forgot that he died at the end, and didn't stop it in time with the first class - learnt my mistake and refrained from causing tears in the rest. With the older kids we...

I should feel a lot worse 2day than I actually do, was a very heavy drinking session last night, resulting in Soren Matt and I not geting back until about 6 o'clock in the morning - we deserved the night since we have been so hard working the last two weeks. Truthfully the weeks have been rather uneventful, taught "birthdays" to my students, the first week going over words like balloon and cake, and they made birthday cards. The second week I threw a b...

Whoever created the words for the months of the year - did they not consider how difficult they are, 1. because they are all so bloody similar, and 2. because August has the same beginning pronounciation as October, but with completely different spelling, no wonder my poor grade 2s were a bit confused. We got there though, and most of the kids remembered the months of the year by the end of the lesson. What I was even more impressed with though was they remember...

Teaching English to kids with no clue.First of all you need super glue.Not the cheap stuff that wont do,The really strong stuff you must use! Because you cant teach them English, if they don't sit stillAnd believe me with super glue, sit still they will!Now you've got them in position,the next tricky task, to get them to listen. For this I suggest a cattle rod,They'll soon be silent after one long prod.If this doesn't work, there's always a cane,Very good for s...