Merry Christmas everyone - hope you are all having a fantastic and festive yuletide back home! I have to say I've had a great time here - there are about 25 of us left at the academy and we all went out and got truly soussed (is that how you spell it?) on the 23rd in Changchun. Amazing how a bit of alcohol can help people bond, although I had the worst hangover in about ten years on Christmas Eve morning... For Christmas Day we played "grab bag", a game similar to Secret Santa but with the added twist of being [View Full Entry]

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It's now been a month since I arrived at the Martial Arts Academy - for anyone needing a recap I'm here to learn some Kung Fu for a couple of months before the next leg of my trip which will be to Thailand in February. If I wrote this blog a couple of weeks ago I'd probably have picked a title like "The Shawshank Redemption" or "Prison Break" - it was certainly a shock to the system having got used to being a lone traveller. Firstly it is bitterly cold here - snow blankets the hill on which the academy perches, [View Full Entry]

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