Blogs from Tianjin, China, Asia - page 7

A new month, a new us!!! April is the start of our new life and routine!! We are all settled in China now, we can find our way around, find where they sell the best bread and the yummiest pizza's!! All that we need is our container to arrive in 2 weeks time....we are on count down!! (well the boys are for their toys!!) Matthew is back to school now, his arm is still in a sling and he still has the splint on but he is much better.....think it is just his ego that is a little hurt!! This is what happens when you try to impress the girls at school but they are all fussing over him this week!!! William has started nursery this week, he goes Mon/Wed/Fri. This has been the hardest bit ... read more

We have experienced our first trip to the SOS clinic and hospital with Matthew. I had the dreaded phone call from Matthew's school on Friday afternoon to say he has had a little accident at school. He fell off the monkey bars in the playground and he can't move his arm, hand or fingers and his wrist is very swollen, they think he needs to go to hospital to see a doctor and get an Xray. I felt like challenge Anneka!!! Get passports, enough money, find a taxi......there is always a taxi outside of our apartments but today he was nowhere to be seen so I had to walk all the way to the main road and flag one down!! Then when I got to the school I couldn't find the sick bay room....no sign on ... read more

As Andy has to work tomorrow morning, today we took the boys to Tianjin's Polar Ocean World for Matthew's birthday. From past experience from living in Ghana, West Africa, we was not to sure what we were going to find as sometimes pictures are very different to the real thing!! But we were pleasantly surprised. It was a lovely place once we managed to get there, taxi's do not quite know this place but we got there in the end thanks to our lovely Chinese friend who translated for us via phone!! It was a lovely building in the shape of a shark. It was a little expensive to get in but the boys really enjoyed it and there was lots to see. We entered a shark tunnel and William got the fright of his life ... read more

It's been another busy week here! Today was the Cat In The Hat fashion show at Matthew's school, we (I) have been busy making Matthew's hat to wear and I have to say he looked great!! The school put on a great show and the children looked great all dressed up. Matthew did a fab walk along the runway!!! I think the schools in England should take notes! There is no school tomorrow (Friday) So we have a lovely long weekend, it makes up for the long hours! Then as a nice treat to end the week we had Macdonalds!! Yum!! What else have we been up to? I helped William to make a great tent this week so he has a nice place to eat his popcorn and watch Mr Tumble! Built tunnels for our ... read more

Just a short one today................ We went to the shoe market again today in Tanngu and I managed to take a few photo's!! We also went to Ikea, we don't want to go back there in a hurry!!! It is the same as England - full of people and trollies getting in the way!!! The only difference we noticed was that the local people did like to try out the furniture including sleeping in the beds!! We are going to the cinema tomorrow, our new friends thought they would take us to show what great things Matthew can do here. They don't have children so I wonder if they are going to enjoy sitting for an hour and a half watching something like Toy Story or I've heard Frozen is out here! Not sure what we ... read more