Helloooo, long time no speak... once again i do not know where to start - seeing as i have not written for a while and so much has happened! I hope all of you reading this are well and that the British weather isn't too cold for ya! So I have been living in Wenchang for a month now and time is going so ridiculously fast, i really can't believe it... So since my last entry we have had a few visitors from the city - throughout the last couple of weeks our frien...

Hello!! How are you??? So this is my first entry from here in Wenchang - this is where i am living for the next three months and where i am teaching. It is so unbelievably hot here and the humidity reaches 98% so i think it then makes it feel even hotter!!The mosquitos are out in force and i have already managed to start a nice dot-to-dot style picture on my legs - in bites!! - I think it resemembles a whale. Ok, so Sarah and me - one of the volunteers who trai...

Hey all!! So this is my last entry from Haikou (for now at last!) I really can't believe that my months teacher training is up. After 3 hours sleep i woke up to my roomate doing the last of her packing (she's the first one leaving today - off to her new accomodation abut 20mins away from here - but is coming back to see the rest of us off later - and some others who will stay in Interschool accomodation.) So yeh... felt really surreal up until this point and now ...

Hello! Here i am sitting in a smokey internet cafe down the road from the flat where all of us on our teacher-training are staying. Sooo i know it has been a fair while since my last blog, and lots has happened! However i will try and be as interesting as possible when i relay the last couple of weeks to you... Now, where had i left you? I think my last entry was maybe in Xi'an? I can't remember... however basically after Xi'an i had to fly to Gulin as there were...

Hello people! So... My first day in beijing was spent at the Forbidden City - pretty awesome architecture, absolutely stunning... so i wandered around there for a few hours then went toTiananmen square which is like just across the way really... In the afternoon i went out with Kerry (a girl who leaves for Xi'an tonight) to the silk market (just damn aimed at tourists really) - meaning my first experience on the metro -MUCH EASIER THAN MOSCOW! and far less daunti...