CHINA | Friday, 13 Nov 2009 | Views [38] | Comments [2]
Last week I had to go up to Shanghai in order to do my tsa (economics entrance exam) and then as it was on Wednesday I figured I might as well stay there untill the weekend, when Arendse, Dan, Richard and the Americans decided to come up for a weekend ... Read more >
CHINA | Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | Views [51]
Here're some reasons why I'm starting to love Jingdezhen: 1. The porcelain. The lamp posts are all made of porcelain, the traffic lights are made of porcelain, shop doors are made of porcelain and in general it's just everywhere. When you arrive in ... Read more >
CHINA | Friday, 16 Oct 2009 | Views [70] | Comments [1]
Teaching is a pretty amazing job. At times it's absolutely impossible, but when you have a good lesson it makes up for it all. After my first awful lessons with Junior 1 and 2, who are my youngest students, I then had some awesome lessons with my senior ... Read more >
CHINA | Friday, 9 Oct 2009 | Views [141] | Comments [4]
Sorry it's taken me so long to write, it's been so busy what with being an importand English teacher and all. So basically we first decided to venture away from our project for my birthday weekend where we decided to go to Nanchang and through to Xinyu ... Read more >
CHINA | Saturday, 12 Sep 2009 | Views [88] | Comments [6]
We've been here for just over a week now and it has been a pretty eventful one too! At first things were quite quiet because we hadn't started teaching yet and people weren't really aware that we existed, but now there are people banging on our door ... Read more >
CHINA | Sunday, 6 Sep 2009 | Views [87] | Comments [3]
We set off on Wednesday evening on our 12 hour sleeper train to Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province, where I will be staying. The sleeper train was actually surprisingly nice, each little room has two bunk beds each with 3 beds, but as the ceiling's ... Read more >
CHINA | Wednesday, 2 Sep 2009 | Views [83] | Comments [2]
Hi everyone sorry it's taken so long to get round to writing anything, we've been seriously busy enjoying Beijing! I arrived nice and safely on Saturday and very impressively managed to avoid catching swine flu on the plane/getting quarantined/losting ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wednesday, 26 Aug 2009 | Views [83] | Comments [3]
So, the day after tomorrow I will be flying 5000 kilometers across the globe to Beijing where my adventure will begin. We are going to spend 5 days in Beijing doing an orientation course and will then be getting the train to our seperate projects spread ... Read more >
