July 27th 2009  Asia » China » Yunnan » Mile
*If you don't like stuff about needles, don't read!!* I was taken in an ambulance to the local Mile County People's Hospital (弥勒县人民医院). Arrangement ... [full story]

July 24th 2009  Asia » China » Yunnan » Mile
One week of teaching over. It has been pretty mixed I have to say..some things are very frustrating, but I have to say the kids are growing on me a lot. We just had an hour meeting concerning di ... [full story]

August 3rd 2009  Asia » China » Yunnan » Mile
Mile town is about 1/2 hour walk from the school (it takes 15 minutes alone just to get to the entrance of the place mind you!) but only 10 yuan by taxi. While it is fairly modern, the place is lin ... 13 photos [full story]

July 12th 2009  Asia » China » Yunnan » Mile
Trained from 9am until 11:30pm today. We had to form groups to create a 40-minute lesson plan yesterday, so we’ve been teaching them to the others today. We had a 2-hour break while the group th ... [full story]

July 10th 2009  Asia » China » Yunnan » Mile
In April I came across the English Summer School programme at Qinglai School in a google search (despite that I later found that it was advertised all over my student union), and applied straight away ... 2 photos [full story]