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After such a packed day the day before we didn’t think Zhangjiajie could possibly have anything left to blow our minds with, we were wrong… We set off early taking a public bus from the centre of town to the Jinbian Stream gate of the National Forrest Park. The bus stops just outside of the …
Continue reading "Keep on Climbing: Zhanjiajie, Huan, Day Two"
The 5th of April marked the Tomb Sweeping festival in China, as a result our school here in Sanxiang was closed from the 2nd to the 6thof April (to allow people to travel home and celebrate the festival, which involves visiting ancestors and burning paper offerings for them to enjoy in the afterlife). They call this a …
Continue reading "Mountains, Monkeys and Magic: Zhanjiajie, Hunan, Day One."
Most people who know me will know how difficult I am to feed. I was diagnosed with Coeliac Disease at the age of eight; this means I cannot eat gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and (indirectly through cross contamination in mills) oats. When I told people I was moving to China for five …
This time last month was my first day in Sanxaing, I know I keep saying it, but I cannot believe how quickly time is going here. The last month has been an absolute blur of experiences but I am going to try my best to put them into words. Our first week started …
Continue reading "Too Hot (Pot) to Handle: Exploring Sanxaing and Zhongshan"
Teaching English: just when you think you've got it, you lose it and just when you think you've lost it, you crack it again. My first day of teaching I realized I had lost my USB stick somewhere between getting on the plane in London and arriving at my placement school. As a …
Continue reading "Organised Chaos: the First Few Weeks of Teaching"
I have been in China for three weeks, I did mean to start these blog posts earlier but time has been flying by! Now that I have settled into my placement and got my timetable of classes, I finally have the opportunity to sit down and write about it. My journey began with a couple …
Continue reading "Beijing: Rice for Breakfast, Halloumi Chat and the Great Wall of China"
I've not written a blog post in over a year! Well not for this site anyway, but I'm in China and I want to document it. So as of Monday I hope to be posting a weekly blog about my experience. I arrived in China on the 20th of February and it has been a …
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