Ok, so it's been a while In my defense we have been working really hard. Things are beginning to quiet down now as we head for the end of term. Unfortunately, the last week is "promotion week" a polite way of saying....we can send you to any school, anywhere, any age and you'll teach a lesson that'll make Aston Language Centre look good!! So I came to China with the Grinch thinking that this year he'd have nothing to complain about. China - non religious country - right. Ignores Christmas - WRONG!! At least the tat only arrived in December not [View Full Entry]

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So, the school holiday is over and we are back to the teaching treadmill! We really didn't do a lot over the holiday other than write lesson plans and hide from the unseasonal weather. It's supposed th be dropping in temperature here now but Golden week was so hot we kept the curtains closed all day and hid out indoors. The break did us good and I finally feel that I'm enjoying teaching. I did a lesson in Medical College last week and as an answer to a question one group said: "If we had 1,000000 Yuan to spend we'd buy [View Full Entry]

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So, for all of you who think I fell off the world somewhere East of Riga here I am safe and sound in Wuhu, China. Whilst I was in Moscow at the beginning of August trying to catch up on the blog for St. Petersburg the blog site I use suffered a main server attack and the whole database crashed. I lost most of my blogs and still haven't been able to find them in a cache. Since then internet access has been very unreliable and slow when available at all, so I haven't attempted to write anything else. We have [View Full Entry]

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Well, things are finally coming together. I think we are both really ready to go, its just the last minute stuff left to do. The house looks like a mess with packing boxes all over but by the end of next week everything will be in storage and we'll be living off takeaways and kindness! Spent last night at the village festival wine tasting.......yes, last night. Thunder, lightning, torrential rain and we were in a marquee under a big tree. England at its finest! It was great to catch up with people and grab their emails so we can keep in [View Full Entry]

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Well I've been unemployed for three and a half weeks now and in that time I've acquired: Walking boots that are so chunky they make even my legs look spindly. Jabs for diseases I didn't know existed (and now I wish I didnt) Gadgets that might come in useful..... sometime. Lots of pretty visas. And a lot less money in our bank accounts. Russ and I are off on our odyssey on July 14th. Before that time we want to get round as many of our friends and relations as possible and to that end I went up to my home [View Full Entry]

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Ok so this whole blog thing is new to me. Got the text sorted, got a photo of me up at the beginning, now I just gotta sort out the rest of them....watch this space [View Full Entry]

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