well lets see, I wrote on Thursday; what have I done since....
I'm fairly certain somewhere in the mis shopping was involved but that is a fairly regular occurance as the nearest shopping centre is but 5 minutes walk away (in fact there are 3, and a shopping street)
I have been working hard since though. Jeanette has been ill this week so I picked up her lessons on Saturday morning and the K2 english teacher left so I subbed her lesson on Friday. We picked up our first tutoring session on Friday evening. Izzie taught 2 P3 boys and I took the two K3 girls. 7.30 -9.00 so we were working late, and Friday is already my most hectic day. After this we celebrated the arrival of Koen (another intern placed up north who came down for May holiday) bygoing out to a cocktail bar. That was rather nice as there were a large amount of us. This guy came over who was obviously happy to see so many non-chinese people, imtroduced himself, sat with us and insited on buying a bottle of whisky to share. Izzie and I did not stay too late or drink too much as we both had lessons in the morning. I started at 8.30am I'm hardcore you see! We finished this, had lunch and did the weekly shop (something about saying I do that makes me feel old) before returning to plan our next set of lessons.
We took some lessons at a nearby middle school. They had rung the school to ask for us. 2 hours, extra pay, why not! We arrived at the school and propmptly got lost, having no clue where to go or who to ask so we wandered before sitting oursleves in an empty classroom to finish the final touches to our lesson plan. That is until a student wlaked in and asked what we were doing at her school. They don't have foreign teachers there. We spotted another nom-chinese person and went over to harass him for answers. Turned out he was also taking a class that afternoon. Although older, the level of english was equivilant to our P5 class. All this extra work earned me 600kuai. Considering I get paid 2000kuai a month, it was pretty good going! We decided another nightout was the best solution and went to a bar with the teacher, Angel, that we metatthe middle school. It was a good night but as per usual, we were soon surrounded by chinese men all wanting to say helolo and dance with us and no matter how many times we told them we didn't speak chinese, they continued to talk to us, IN CHINESE! It didn't tar our night though and we rounded it off by walking home in the rain through a building site and climbing over ther gate. We have worked out where to climb the gate so that we don't get caught on CCTV.
We met up with Aviva yesterday and went for a lovely massage. I'm going to miss my cheap massages when I come home.
Daddy is now in China, which seems a little odd, because he's in teh same country and I don't get to see him! He is sending some things my way and I will at some point soon be sending things home.
I've been thinking about the travelling I shall be doing after my contract is up. This lead to drawing up a budget so I know how much money I will have, working out a daily allowance and and draft itinary. And people say I'm not organised! I am very much looking forward to travelling. I plan to ride an elephant! It's all very exciting. As is our forthcoming trip to Yangshuo (we have the train tickets booked so we WILL make it this time) We're going rock climbing!!
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