My seniors actually did all their work last week ：-） Oh the power I have。 I told them that if the ones who hadn't done the work didn't do it， then the whole class would be in trouble。 I couldn't think what kind of trouble they'd be in， but it didn't matter in the end anyway。 I had a short weekend this weekend。Golden week is coming up， and we had to work extra days to make up the time we have off。 This week I had to work Sunday， and I also n...

Last weekend was lovely. Not everyone who was coming from Beijing managed to make it to Shenyang. They were practicing for "Golden Week" and the whole city was shut down. Some of our friends got trapped in Beijing because there were no buses, no underground and the taxi's were only allowed to go to the 4th ring road (honestly - we thought London was bad!) Luckily Jamie and Matthias still made it. They were given the time off by their school so that the...

This week has been Harry Potter week with my juniors. I think we may have to have another one - they all lived it. Unfortunately I was a little bit stupid and gave them a writing task to hand in. I now have 200 copies of first year work to mark, 30 pieces of senior work that they didn't hand in on time and will be receiving another 30 tomorrow. I have also been doing a lot of work with my seniors application for college. I think it's worth putting all the work i...

I forgot to add our Pooqs video!! Check out our first single from our up and coming Pooqs E.P. The Pooqs music is based around our lives at UIBE. The Pooqs will hopefully reform soon to continue recording their E.P. and their newer tracks "Temperature Check", "s***ty s***, position", "4 Taxi's to Sports Bar" and many many more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woP059rT_JM This single was written when the lovely Natacha found a ci...

Teachers day was brilliant. I received some lovely presents and letters (especially from my seniors!) I will treasure them forever. I am feeling pretty proud of myself today. In the class I struggle with I went through some work with one of the boys I thought didn't really understand what I was saying. At the end of the lesson we went over what we had been doing and he stood up and said "I want to be a climber, because it's exciting and dangerous and I wan...