Okay, so…. Pinky (pictured below) suggested we go to the club in Weinan. This was news to most of us, as nobdoy knew Weinan had a club (there’s no nightlife.) Curious, we agreed and walked up the road out of town, before entering a generic looking lobby. We headed down 2-3 flights of stairs to […]

Too drunk or tired to blog, but must fulfill my promise of a blog post today: Best night in China so far. Full blog coming tomorrow. Awesome, awesome, awesome night.

So, we managed to wake up and go for a walk at 9am. A different but still interesting crowd around the square today. The Tai Chi people were still around, but I think some had finished and gone home, in their place a full-blown choir and a traditional percussion [sp?] band. Photos from the morning: […]

A lazy day today after the hussle and bussle of Lantern Festival. (see post below this one for more info on that.) Me and Tim agreed to meet at 7am to go for a walk around Weinan and see what we could see at the crack of dawn. ^ It was super dark, the moon […]

So, last night was lantern festival. Last night was awesome. Lantern festival marks the last day of spring festival, and as far as I could tell was all about lanterns and explosions. You can’t go wrong with lanterns and explosions. So, all day everyone had been saying they’d be out at night watching the fireworks […]

My lock is TIED to the door with STRING. This is the ghetto. This is China. This is the view when you enter my apartment. The slide door to the right is the kitchen, the door next to that is my spare room, which is currently set up as the living room due to whack […]

Monday morning I met Jenny (one of the Chinese office workers at school) to head to Xi’an to have my medical for my Chinese residency. A 7am start, and out into the cold Chinese morning. A 2minute cab ride to the bus station, then a 1 hour bus ride. The bus ride was pretty interesting, […]

Sunday I slept solid until mid-day, when Tim came over from work on his lunch and asked if I wanted to join him for his two afternoon classes. I threw on some clothes, rubbed the sleep from my eyes and staggered the 100 meters or so to Aston. Once inside I got introduced to all […]

So, I arrived in Weinan at maybe 8:00pm? Dropped off my bags at Tim’s place, then he rang the other English teachers and “Pinky” (a Chinese ex-student of Aston) to go for a meal. We went to “pinky’s mum’s friend’s place” – a really nice restaurant a few blocks away from Tim’s apartment. When I […]

So, I left home at about 7:30am on Friday morning, got to the aiport in around an hour, then checked in and had about 2-3 hours to kill. Terminal one of Manchester airport totally sucked, soooo boring. I managed to get a seat near the window, and broke out my zoom lens and shots ome […]