Archive for March, 2009
Im on my break from Beitang, and totally don’t have time to post about the bazillion days that I haven’t blogged. I’ll try find time ASAP. I am however in a good mood, so this post was simply to inform you that China is Awesome.
Day Fourty Six -> Day Fourty Seven – Tuesday 24th -> Wednesday 25th – SKATE!
Comments Published March 26th, 2009 in Uncategorized(I’m writing this on my lunch break, so its super rushed. I’ll let you supply your own image captions for some of the photos) Tuesday 24th Operation Pancake. This is my plan to get rid of my grey cloud. Operation pancake. Went to the supermarket today and got the first wave of supplies. Notice the […]
Day Fourty Four -> Day Fourty Five – Sunday 22nd -> Monday 21st
Comments Published March 24th, 2009 in UncategorizedSunday 22nd An 8am start to the teaching Shenanigans, but with a 3:15pm finish. Went skating straight after school, skated for a few hours, finishing up at around 5:30pm. Grabbed some food in the evening, then just potatoed around my apartment in the evening. I’ve been in a foul mood the past few days, and […]
Day Fourty Two -> Day Fourty Three – Friday 20th -> Saturday 21st – Ran out of talent.
Comments Published March 21st, 2009 in UncategorizedFriday 20th Friday is my hardest day of teaching. Classes of 60 kids, etc (see last weeks rant/post.) Anyway, this week I was prepared for them, so it actually went alright. That was finished up around noon, I grabbed some KFC with Rob at lunch (I’ve been craving western food lately…) and then headed home […]
Day Fourty -> Day Fourty One – Wednesday 18th -> Thursday 19th
Comments Published March 20th, 2009 in UncategorizedWednesday 18th Again, no school – w00t! It was a really, really nice day, so met up with my new friend from the university and walked around town and generally lounged around in the sun. It was 27’c and awesomeness. In the afternoon I met up with Dwayne, who had just bumped into one of his […]
Day Thirty-Six -> Day Thirty-Nine – Saturday 14th -> Tuesday 17th – Sorry!
Comments Published March 17th, 2009 in UncategorizedSorry! For the lack of posts. Skating every night is leaving me exhausted, so perhaps I will have to start blogging in the morning? I don’t know, but i’ll figure something out. Saturday 14th Saturday was an 7:00am wake-up for an 8:00am start to the teaching day, with classes until 5:15pm. The day went quite […]
Day Thirty Five – Friday 13th March – Friday the thirteenth, yup; unlucky!
Comments Published March 14th, 2009 in UncategorizedOh my gawd. Fridays have just become the hardest day of the week. While everyone else in the world says “T.G.I.F”, I hold my head in sorrow. Classes of 60, 7 year old students. 2 hour class length. Learning material that they already know off by heart. Trying to keep their attention is impossible. Argh! […]
Day Thirty Four – Thursday 12th March – First day teaching at Batong
Comments Published March 14th, 2009 in UncategorizedStill ill! 🙁 First day of teaching at Batong, the public school. Classes of 20 6-7 year olds. The class is CRAZY. A primary school bigger than my university. About 8 buildings, each 4-5 stories, a huge courtyard where every morning all the students amass ( a lot of students, in the thousands easily ) and […]
Day Thirty Three – Wednesday 11th March – Oh, thats why my leg hurts!
Comments Published March 11th, 2009 in UncategorizedToday, a revelation! Finally found out why my leg has been hurting for the past few days: CAUTION: Photo contains copious amounts of inner-thigh flesh. Vegetarians / easily offended need not apply. that said, click here to see my nice bruise. For the less brave, my upper hamstring is sporting a nice 20cm-square Africa-shaped corned-beef-looking […]
Day Thirty Two – Tuesday 10th March – Got my own skates! =D
Comments Published March 11th, 2009 in Uncategorized😀 So, Woke up, still with my cold so had a lay-in until about 11 to try sleep it off – didn’t work. Headed into school to pick up my pay, then headed to the duck shop to meet up with the guy I’ve dubbed “Dwayne” (his Chinese name sounds like Dway – ne) As […]
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