Blogs from TEDA, Tianjin, China, Asia - page 3

Yesterday was Williams 3rd birthday......Party time!!! It started off as a small cake to take to nursery and then ended up as a big party at Green park!!! My fantastic Chinese teacher helped me lots and with out her it would not have been as great! We ended up having around 35 people coming......5 little Chinese friends from nursery plus theirs mums and 2 teachers and then our friends from Green park and a couple from Andy's work. I decorated the garden with balloons with lots of help from Matthew and his friends!! The garden looked great! I had a nice little playing area with toys and we played pass the parcel, "hunt the Micky Mouse" a Micky Pinata and "pop the balloon" with sweets inside.....This is what I enjoy the most, we all had so ... read more

The Face Changing Show was fantastic with so many different acts, colourful clothes and masks, singing and dancing and best of all the main act...."The Face Changing dancers" We watched a great shadow hand puppet act.....he was amazing to watch, just couldn't take our eyes of the screen. Because there was so many different things to see and lots of photos I have done a blog just for this show. Hope you enjoy the photos!... read more

It's still the school holidays here in Teda, Andy is in the US so it's just me and the boys! We had another trip to Tianjin Zoo this week, this is one of the boys favourite places to visit. We seemed to have picked the hottest day to go though......temp up to 37/38 and a very sweaty heat. We hired out a little car to zoom around the zoo. We had seen them before but it's one of those things where "next time we come" we will try so I thought as it was a hot day, be a nice treat for an hour! The boys had a great time driving.......they really did drive mummy round the bend!!!! William was in charge of beeping the horn to move people out of Matthew's way.....the Chinese thought this ... read more

I am on a mission to find new places to go in Teda where we live. I went to my Chinese writing class last week with Matthew but we got there 20 minutes early so we went for a little walk around. In this area there is mainly a large hotel, a building where I have my class and a few bars and restaurants and then next to one of the bars we saw a poster in Chinese but had a picture of a child on with armbands. We went through the small door and followed the corridor and found the biggest swimming pool we have ever seen!! The nice lady at reception showed us around and it looked great so we went back there today while William was at nursery to check it out. There ... read more

Monday we had a tase of what water day at Teda Internation School was like............oh my goodness what a fun day it was!!! The staff worked so hard over the weekend to get everything ready, it was amazing!! There were 8 different areas or stations as they call them! 1 - The BIG swimming pool! 2- The House team activity...........4 large buckets/bins of water, they had cups, a small bucket and sponges to transfer water to small box only cups and bucket had holes in!! 3 - bench walk - children took turns to walk along while other children throw wet sponges at them!! 4 - water guns!! - 2 small pools each armed with water guns!! 5 - slippery Waterslide!! To fly like superman!! 6 - Get your friends and teachers!!! Take turns to throw ... read more