It’s hard to believe it’s been a full decade since I saw in the new millennium, dancing to cheesy songs and eating overpriced, inedible fast-food. So what better way to see in the new decade than to do exactly the same in China. Anyway, I will save New Year, alongside Christmas shenanigans for my next email. With daylight temperatures rarely warmer than minus fifteen degrees Celsius, exploring the bitter cold streets of Benxi haven’t really been high on my agenda. Apart from an embarrassing game of badminton, where my new boss gave a free lesson to his watching friends on how best to annihilate a foreigner, it’s been two weeks of pure, unadulterated teaching. Probably the greatest gratitude that can be bestowed upon a teachers weary shoulders in China, is the chance to give English names
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