on the road

After anticipating leaving on Friday we actually postponed our departure. Craig wasa to say the least very tired and had also made a trip to the school doctor for feeling particularly unwell. We stuck to western food that night to upset his stomach as little as possible.
I gave him my bed and shared Izzie's. This didn't give either of us much sleep as we ended up in giggles after trying to terrify each other. I also had an early phonecall reminding me that I was to teach at 9am but to ask whether I would ask Izzie if she wanted to teach at 8.30. She definitely did not.
The lessons went well, a little bit extra cash in hand. After eventually getting the pair out of bed around midday, we went for some noodles at a street vendor. This was just after forcing Craig to try the octopus balls which in all fairness aren't that bad.  We packed and said goodbye and got ourselves on a train to Shanghai. It was along journey and not all that interesting, as train journeys rarely are but it passed amiably enough. I was luckier than the other two. I was in a seperate train carriage away fromt he screaming child that they had to put up with.
We havn't done an awful lot today. It took us a while to find a hostel, where the newlock for my luggage got stuck and had to be plied open by the hostel owner with his toolbox. then we had a late lunch. We thought maybe we would look at a nearby museum until we saw the queue to get in so we setted for a walk in the park, some bumper cars and a stroll along the bund. Again, with the full intention of intorducing him to local cuisine, we offered Craig squid on a stick. he reluctantly tried it and promptly spat it back out again. Poor thing.
We are off for some dinner soon. We have full intentions of staying awake to watch the germany vs. spain match tonight =)

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leaving

Hong Kong has left me feeling more than a little bitter and with the overwhelming feeling of being financially raped. We finally got our visas but we had to use an agent as the embassy was not issuing double entry visas to anyone and so we paid through the nose for it.  Whilst we were there typhoon signal 8 was also hoisted, though we were asleep at this poitn and it had been reduced to a level 3 when we woke up. We spent a very pointless day doing nothing but wandering around in the rain waiting to collect our passports. The bus home was not the most enjoyable. It took nearly 7  hours (4 longer than supposed) because of flooding and traffic and oh it was not fun!!!
I also did not have a greta day yesterday. We intended going to Zhongshan to leave our luggage at the office between 12 and 2. I knocked on Izzie's door just after 12 waking her up and we didn;t leave until half 4 despite reminding her that the office wasn't open 24/7. They had to wait for us as we were so late. We also got off at the wrong bus station and paid a very large amount for a taxi and then had to rush back to get the last bus. I was not a happy bunny let me tell you!
Today, however, is much better. I was awoken by Craig ringing to say that he had landed at the airport. I went down to teach (the cash in hand extra lessons) and after the first i\one ended literally ran out of the room to hunt him down as another phonecall mid-lesson had informed me of his arrival.
He's been getting a few stares from the students amd he sat through my lessons which were impossible to do because as the assistant informed me, they wanted nothing more than to play with him! We are slowly introducing him to China which naturally involves taking him to our noodles place and RBT and a vague attempt at teaching sme basic chinese. Currently he is massacring the language but he will learn.
We set off on our travels today. It will not be my last entry., never fear, I shall keep you all updated but now I am very excited and very happy to have one of my best friends here in China. Yay!!!

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Russians do like their vodka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n15JhRcKtv4

This is a link for a video of some of my kindergarten students being their delightful selves =) plus if you watch it lots I might win some money!

So let's begin with yesterday morning. We didn't stick to the timings as planned as I spent ages in the post office trying to collect my parcel. They were being fussy because I didn't have my passport with me.  Most annoying.
Eventually we set off for Shenzhen, carrying one rather heavy holdall between us. (Sorry Daddy!) There was nothing of interest about the journey. It took us a while to find our bus in Shenzhen, but we managed it eventually and hopped on. That was one long bus ride. It came as quite a surprise when we found ourselves on the road we needed to be on and missed our stop. Oh the joys. We headed straight to the irish bar, left the holdall in a corner (I almost left saying only "my dad will collect it soon") They remembered me from picking it up though so they understood.

We went for a very nice indian meal. I was spoilt for choice... I havn't seen such an extensive vegetarian section in far too long! Enough to say that I enjoyed my meal. Last night proved to be an expensive one, lots of food and drinks. We sat talking to some russian guys. 1 of them didn't speak any english at all but seemed quite happy to nod along and smile bless him. Then I lost the room key. We eventually returned to our room around half 5, just 45 minutes before our wake up call. Izzie had taken some persuading to leave as obviously she was enjoying herself far too much. Suffice to say we didn't make the ferry as planned.I was still up when the wake up call arrived so I went and had breakfast.I brought some back for Izzie but she was feelign a little worse for wear and didn't want to eat anything. I promptly feel asleep. We checked out at noon, much to the amusement of the clerk who was around when we had arrived that morning without a key. 

We got oursleves on the ferry to Hong Kong which did nothing to ease the queasiness of Izzie's tummy. The object of being here is to extend or get a new visa. However, they visa office said we shouldn't do this because of our current visa. We didn't understand what they thought we should do and now we are at a complete loss and have possibly made a fruitless yet expensive trip. I love wasting money, especially since I'm up to my ears in it. Phht.
Anywho, hopefully the TTC staff will get back to us asap and we will find a way round this little dilemma. =)

Now go watch my video!!

quarrel

I think the rainy season must be over now and with the rain gone, most of the humidity has disappeared leaving me to enjoy a dry heat of 35°C +

We actually missed most of the beautiful weather on Thursday being holed up in RBT. We made major progress with our travel plans, which as you may have realized were thrown into chaos momentarily. We sat here for 5 hours, with guide books, paper and notebooks strewn across the table. All of the glitches have also been ironed out, and we are ready to book the flights. Wahey. That may have been the day we got takeaway form the noodle place and walked to the lake and observed the fish. They were very big goldfish/carp. The actual species remains unknown. It was a pleasant evening.

Yesterday was thrilling. We had made plans to visit the Zumiao temple, a must for people visiting FoShan as we were told. I was ready around lunch to set off but Izzie hadn't slept well and wanted to take the lunchtime nap as the children do. Fair enough, 2 hours later I knocked on her door to make sure she was up. She said 10 minutes to get ready. It is always a reasonable assumption to double or even triple Izzie's time frames. However, an hour later, was she ready? Of course not! She insisted 'just 2 more minutes', which she didn't keep to so I refused to go anywhere. Having spent the entire day waiting around, which felt like a huge waste, I chose to walk to the temple. I had a vague idea where it was as I had briefly glanced at a map. I set off enjoying the evening sun and cursing myself for bringing only a 100 元bill as paying for a 1 元bottle of water with that would not have been appreciated. My sense of direction astounds me still. I wandered aimlessly without the slightest clue where I was for the majority of the time. I was going to give in to the heat, sat myself down and bought a drink (trusty, old McDonalds never complain about the size of the bill) when I realized that I was in fact around the corner from my destination.

I had a lovely time at the temple actually. It was early evening but still hot, and the temple was full of trees and was incredible. I would have been happy just to sit there for a few hours, it felt a lot like a garden and only a little like a temple.

Upon my return, Isobel was knocking at my door in want of ice. A car had hit a bike with a trailer and something had flown from somewhere and hit her in the face. Surprisingly, she doesn't have a black eye. We had a good giggle about really random things. It will probably help that neither of us hold grudges!

I somehow ended up in a P3 water fight yesterday too. Stupid children fell for "Can I have a look?" and handed over their weapons. They resorted to throwing leaves at me. Phht.

I have just had a conversation with the waitress about why I like green apple tea so much, whereas she much prefers milk tea. Does that mean I order it too often??

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China - greener than the UK? Who'da thunk it

This morning was a very pleasant morning. With it being the rainy season at the moment, it is very rarely not cloudy and overcast and that's only when the heavens haven't opened and the rain isn't falling by the bucketful. However, this morning, the sky was actually blue. I liek my sunglasses too as they are blue tinted which makes the sky seem even more blue. Very nice. I also discovered that China is slowly, ever so slowly, turning green. One is now charged for plastic bags at the supermarket.
so let's think about how I have been spending my week.....
After our session at the internet café (where I currently am and most embarrassingly the waiter asked if I wanted my usual ) we went shopping. Izzie bought some new trainers, she tried them on without socks and I said that they were a little tight anyway, therefore she should buy the next size up but she didn't listen. They have caused her lots of pain so she went back today to buy a second pair, a size bigger. lol. We also raided number 2 storehouse (our favourite shop) and indulged in a bit of retail therapy.
Tuesday was a busy day. I got us out of bed and on a bus to Guangzhou nice and early (relatively speaking) in order to find the Vietnamese embassy. 42 pounds for a visa! phht.
We came back and met up with Aviva for some lunchtime kareoke. Yes we know. It was just the 3 of us but we had a rave singing old cheesy songs and classics. We also had a go at singing some Chinese songs, much to Aviva's delight. We somehow spent 4 hours there. How time flies when you're having fun!
We wandeed past a children's clothes shop and I found myself in there awwing over clothes and making purchases for sally's bump who berate dme for doing so. IT"S MY MONEY! lol
We returned to Guangzhou yesterday to collect our visas. We haven't really done much else. Izzie did manage to get robbed yesterday, but the only thing that was stolen was my umbrella, which she had borrowed. nothing of her own, oh no, she got robbed of MY stuff! Typical!
The students seem very happy to still have us vaguely around. I've had numerous students launch themselves at me. Ben, very small child, actually took a running jump at me. He was stood on a table at the time as well. We've taken to watching P2 practise a dance routine but we have to be careful not to distract them, otherwise instead of listening to the PE teacher they wave and shout "Seona! Isobel!"
I'm learning how to play chess too (not chinese chess... one type at a time!) I suck. the things I do to fill my time! Buuut...... Craig arrives a week tomorrow yeah!

fortunate

Let me start by saying thank you to all the people praying for me. TTC (the company responsible for me) spoke to the school and convinced them to provide our accommodation for the rest of the month. I have a roof over my head, which is what I need really. The little details have been sorted though we would like to know whether we can still eat in the school canteen or not. Most people complain about TTC saying they are useless but whenever I've had a serious problem (being evicted, being robbed, needing medical attention) they couldn't have been more helpful.
Instead of our Mandarin lesson on Thursday evening, Joy, our teacher, took us out. First we had a meal at a place on the side of the road where you pick whatever you want and they throw it together and cook it for you. We hadn't been brave enough to try it ourselves. It was nice though. She also convinced us to try octopus balls. Not the worst thing I've ever eaten but I'd prefer to stick to it being a one off. It was an enjoyable evening. Upon returning, we were getting ready to meet our friend Angel at a bar until I slipped in a puddle and cracked my head on the floor. It was pretty painful so it put an end to those plans.
I couldn't bear to tell my kindergarten class that I was leaving but I did get lots of photos and gave out sweets. One little boy wanted another to give to his big brother so at the end of the 'lesson' we went to find his brother. The rest of the boys in that class tried to con my poor kindergartener out of his sweets until I intervened. This same little boy also told me that I am not going home ever, I'm going to live with him, his brother and his dad. We actually spent our lessons playing games, taking photos and giving out sweets (we spent an excessive amount of money on sweets - we emptied the shelves of both corner shops)
P2A nearly cried when I informed them that it was my last lesson.
We ran around at the end of the school day with bags of sweets, attempting to avoid the P6 boys who barricaded us in a classroom which resulted in climbing out of the window. That move took them by surprise I think.
We were treated to dinner by some of the teachers on Friday, just after we found out that everything was going to be ok =) We had a good giggle together and they all want us to keep in touch when we leave.
I took my kindergarten class on Saturday morning as usual and in the afternoon Isobel and I took some lessons at the middle school. It's all cash in hand so the government doesn't know lol Following this we met up with Aviva in a park. I say park, it's like an outdoor gym with athletic track, basketball courts, and non-electrical gym equipment naturally. We borrowed somebody's badminton racquets and had a bat around. It was fun.
Yesterday, I did very little. I remained in bed for the majority of the day until we went out for dinner. After that, I didn't fancy going back to my room so  I went for a meander. I ended up buying some DVD's (6 series of scrubs) I also got my hands on Prince Caspian, which yes I do realise this is not real and was quite obviously filmed from a cinema and at sporadic intervals a figure would wander across the screen. I did spend a while trying to remember which number it was, finally settled on number four and was then bamboozled and the name of the 7th book, which eluded me. I got as far as 1)The magician's nephew 2) the lion, the witch and the wardrobe 3)the horse and his boy 4)prince Caspian 5)the silver chair 6) voyage of the dawn treader. 7)?? the dawn treader was my personal favourite.
There may be a few confused students around as we did tell them we are leaving, whereas we are still around but not teaching. Coco actually called Isobel a liar for saying she was leaving!
Currently, Izzie and I are the only people in the café and are consequently sat on opposite sides using both computers. The waitresses remember us and said welcome again. Oh dear!

It's a Chilli Business

This was going to be a happy blog, cheerful and full of nice tales about my students. However, circumstances have changed. I am somewhere between heartbroken and furious. We got fired today. The chinese government says we are not qualified to be teachers so we're being fired. On top of this, we are being evicted; we have to move out by the weekend.
Most of the teachers don't know yet, but the teacher that did was visibly upset, which doesn't make me feel any better. I've decided not to teach my lessons tomorrow and instead I'm going to use the time to say goodbye to my students. It's so unfair to give us so little warning about it, and it is in breach of our contract. The whole thing is in breach of our contract, but none of that matters to the Chinese government.
I don't even know what to think.
I've laughed because the situation is so ridiculous. I nearly cried because it's heartbreaking (I struggled to think of a synonym). I yelled and grimaced (at nothing in particular) because I can't believe they're doing this to us now. Right now, I feel a little anxious and dejected.
I'm a little worried about money. I'm losing 1650 yuan in wages, on top of this I now have to pay for food and accommodation for the next 18 days which definitely were not in my budget. I had it all planned out - I knew exactly how much I had to spend every day after accommodation and transport. My budget does not accomodate for this; I was spending all the money I have to my name on this travelling. The school is also supposed to pay for our return to Beijing but who knows if they will still do that other wise that's another 500 yuan.
I am at a complete loss about what to do. We have spoken to our area manager from TTC who is trying to get the school to give us the 10 days written notice but I honestly don't what we can do. I am at a loss

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Let's move on to the happier things now.
I was used as a climbing pole by a very determined child yesterday. I refused to pick him up, despite his incessant jumping up with outstretched arms. he obviously didn't like the favouritism being shown to his younger sister, whom I had just set back down on the floor, so instead, climbed up my legs and wrapped himself around my waist.
I enjoyed a lovely natter with my sister last night for over an hour! I miss her lots and lots. I made her giggle lots with my silly stories. She found the idea of me standing in front of P5A (that infamous, wayward class) singing S club 7's 'Reach' hilarious and started singing "weach for the stars" to herself. The story of the little 6 year old unremittingly flipping me off, regardless of the shocked expression on my face also proved to entertain her somewhat. These children have character by the bucketful.
I decided to tire myself out last night by going for a run round the school track. After returning a pleasant plum colour, I came across some students wandering the corridors. Naturally, I queried their actions. They were looking for a chilli or two to put in their noodles for some flavour. I had a packet in my fridge and acquiesced and handed over a few. (That word reminds me only of pirates of the caribbean now - "I am disinclined to acquiesce your request" - just pretend you can hear me putting on a voice) Despite my attempts to shut the door behind me, they still wandered into my room. Now imagine I had started with my anecdote with 'I had two boys in my room last night.'
This chilli business did not stop at these two though. Shortly after I heard a knock at my door. I had just got out of the shower and was wrapped ina  towel and, upon the assumption that it would be Isobel knocking, thought it safe to open the door. To my surprise I found 2 more boys stood at my door in want of chillis. They took the packet away, further to my surprise, and returned in later, when I was in my pyjamas, which to some extent is a better outfit, but still not the most appropriate, to be seen in by students. They paid me 5 mau for them too, the cutiepies (that's about 3pence)
My my, this entry is on the long side. Sorry!

changes

true to a distinctive chinese style, the school has changed some details last minute. I rephrase that, a month in advance is a lengthy forewarning by chinese standards, but there it is, they changed the date of the school's graduation ceremony. It was supposed to be on the 10th but is now on the 12th. I suppose that I should be glad that I hadn;t booked any flights yet which I had intended on doing yesterday but it caused chaos for my plans. I got myself a little worked up thinking that a) we would have to get an expensive flight so as to waster no further time, b) sacrifice a destination on our travels or c) not go to the graduation. All 3 were not things I wanted to do. However, today I am thinking much more clearly and have realised that I don't need to see the great wall or the summer palace again (as much as I would like to) thus we set our plans back a few days and I lose time in Beijing. There is a solution to everything! Now this means that I get to see my version of Snow White 9written by yours truly) perfromed on stage by my darling P6B. I think I may have been quite cruel to them yesterday, but it was all for my own amusement!! You must understand that I had a reason for this! They seem to have a problem with the idea of Prince Charmingconfessing his love, to a girl of all things!! so we played honey,do you love me? It was hilarious especially after they targeted Michelle (their new english teacher) and myself. So much hassle over telling someone you love them. Well they are at that age. I also focused on the final scene. I removed the life giving kiss (too risque!) but replaced it with a dance. Trying to get them to even vaguely appear as though they were dancing together had the boys in hysterics and the poor couple cringing. I was suitably entertained!
There could be more that I can waffle on about but now does not feel like the time. I am far too happy that I have found a solution to a ratehr depressing prospect. I did learn 2 new words yesterday (english ones) puerile and puckish and to think I'd call myself a fluent speaker!

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dragonboat

Ok so this time the Monday morning blog is being written from an internet cafe. The staff here laughed when I showed up as I sat here for nearly 3 hours on Saturday. They immediately pointed in the direction of the computer. I have Radio 1's chart show playing which gives me great happiness because IT'S DECENT MUSIC!!!!!
Well, the school took more pictures of us on Thursday with the 2 best pupils from each class. Looking our best naturally. We messed about for the pictures with p6 and p5. We made sure there were nice pictures too but there are ones of us strangling each other, pretending to fight, pulling faces, picking people up and being rather insane. After the other teachers ran off to their lessons, I found myself outside with nothing to do and P6B. It was their PE lesson but no teacher. I played tig with the girls before deciding that was too much effort and I contented myself with watching the boys play basketball and chatting to the subs sat at the side. It was quite nice though i got a very dirty bum. I hope you're all ready to pack because one student asked why I was going home and didn;t live in China permenantly. I responded that I missed my friends and family so he said you should all move to China too!
Not much else interestign has happened in all honesty. Despite the fact that this weekedn is the dragon boat festival and we even have today off, we decided it may be unwise to go anywhere because no-one has fixed Izzie's door yet. Or my toilet. My TV is also broken now. It blew the circuit in my room which was easy enough to reset but now I have no TV  
6 hours were [wasted/spent/devoted to/whiled away] yesterday watching Pride and Prejudice, the BBC version, with the epic, legendary and infamous scene of Mr. Darcy. Fabulous.
I bought myself a backpack for my travels, I've done a trial pack too. I am that exciting. I've made a list of things i need to take and am mentally listing things I will be throwing out before I come home (essential to decide early as I will need to be fully packed before I go a-travelling.) Leaving the school is making me think about coming home but that's still 2 months away - unreal. 

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fabulous

I am regretting the idea of including the hat dance in my P1 lessons. Not because it was a bad idea, but because I have to demomstrate it which means i get too hot. yeaurch. The students love the idea of waering a selection of mine and Izzie's hats. I must get a photo in P1C tomorrow.
They decided yesterday that they wanted to take some pictures of the foreign teachers with the best students from each class. Yesterday, when it was hot and sticky, and raining and we were all dressed in the nearest item of clothing, with unbrushed, frizzy hair and yes, all 3 of us looked awful. If one of those pictures ends up on the billboard outside the school it will be tragic. We suspect that at least one of the photos they take of us will end up there.
I'm as beautiful as a princess don't you know! that's what a student told me as I was on my way out to the shop last night. He also asked if we could play some games in my lesson today (starting in 7 minutes) naturally I agreed as there were a few already in my lesson plan. However, not too long ago their other english teacher asked me if I would co-operate with her discipline scheme this week (they are an extremely naughty class) and well I don't need my lesson plan because I will be watching them sit up straight in complete silence for 40 minutes.
I had quite a hassle applying for my cambodian visa - I decided to go for an E-visa but the photo proved to be a problem. I ended up sitting on the floor so that I had a plain background and getting Izzie to take some headshots. We hardly took it seriously and there were a number of mugshots and one where I have a slightly deranged expression on my face.
having introduced the game "what time is it mr. Wolf" it has taken the school by storm. They love it and charged at isobel when at lunchtime, she made the mistake of askingthe time. Could have been fatal with all those children trying to eat her!
Snow white's first rehersal was interesting. Prince Charming ended up in tears because he had to say "I love you" and I had to attempt to convince one buy that the rest of the dwarves didn;t hate him and want to kill him when in fact, they quite probably do. They do not like him. It couldn;t be more fun!!
Anyway the bell just went so I better go to that lesson of mine.

Who needs a door anyway?

Yesterday was Children's day. the school used Friday to celebrate this so they moved the interest lessons from Saturday to Friday. It was Izzie's turn but since she was at Huang Qi, I took them. After that I only had one lesson as P3 practically shooed me out of the classroom. They could have told me in advance not to come; I planned a lesson!
We went out for dinner before heading to our tutoring. One of my girls got herself extremely worked up and upset, because she thinks you have to be loud for the teacher to like you. Bless her, I cheered her up with some photos. They very much enjoyed passing judgement on Izzie's friends. Afterwards Izzie was telling their mother how I eat like a bin. Her response "but she's so thin!" was soon followed by the insight " you don't like her for this" sweet.
We returned to our rooms and got ready to go out and celebrate Mike's birthday and Zoe's leaving party. It was a fun night with much posing in a dark bar in sunglasses, because yes, we are that cool. We didn't come home too late, yet I stayed up to read a magazine (my logic there is lost on me) and as a result I eventually got out of bed just before 3pm just as Izzie was knocking on my door to tell me she was off to the middle school. I felt incredibly lazy. I walked to Walmart and back in the rain. I wouldn't have walked back except the motorbike man laughed at me attempting to carry my bags and hold an umbrella so I wasn't going to give him my business!
I think that completely sums up Saturday actually, it was a very lazy, boring kind of day. Yesterday was much more interesting. We met up with some students from the middle school who took us somewhere very retro, a roller disco. Not an ice rink or even roller blades, oh no, roller skates, with the wheels in a square. It was fun though. We spent a great deal of time trying to each 2 of the girls how to skate. Then we made a chain thinking it might help them if they were half being pulled, half pushed, keep them steady. It was carnage with all 7 of us ending in  a heap. We weren't the only ones. Their skating is about as safe as their driving so there were plenty of collisions, especially with the ones skating backwards in chains.
We came home rather tired and sweaty, but with a craving for pizza. After de-smelling, Izzie and I went to Pizza hut, which was extremely busy. We joined the waiting list and they said they would ring us when our table was ready so we mooched off and ended up in McDonalds with some chips to tide us over. They rang us and we went back over to see some familiar faces at the front of the queue - Jamie, fellow foshan resident, sam, former TTC intern, and Sam's girlfriend. Ok well she wasn't a familar face, but we managed to get them on our table so there was a nice little group of us for dinner exchanging stories and news.
Oh I forgot! In between coming home and going out again, Izzie locked her key in her room (again) after discussing the options with the chinese teachers they opted for choice z) in anybody else's book, break down the door. Michelle did the honours ( a tiny, sweet woman) with one kick, a final nudge from me and the door was open. The lock was completely destroyed so there was no more need for a key! Izzie is procrastinating telling Vicky she needs Mr. Fix-it man to come and repair her door. Oh the drama!

repeat

i was told half of the last entry came up in squares so here it is again
 
I didn't mention that when I walked into the K3B classroom, Michael and Martin (the children at the meal) were telling their teacher how good I was at drinking alcohol. Ever so slightly embarassing. This week has flown by. I went for a wander on Monday evening, as I was feeling the symptons of cabin fever. On we went to order some photographs which resulted in getting a macdonalds. We were helping to correct some work done by the students and one peice was titled "my foreign teachers" it was an interesting read. It described Izzie as short and "a little bit fat" and me as tall and i have 2 on my face. 2 of what I will never know. Of course we are both beautiful and the girl raved about how wonderful we are.. it was rather sweet.
Unfortunately, Izzie's great aunt died on Tuesday night so she was very upset when she found out yesterday. The funeral is on staurday so Ithink we will have our own sort of memorial service, wake kind of thing since she is unable to go home for the actual funeral. She stayed in her roomwith her newly received chocolate from home and I had a one-on-one chinese lesson. I was practising with a student and i asked what his chinese name was and it sounded like the chinese word for spoon so from now on he is garfield/hugo/spoon. We are having a test so I shall be practising. Izzie went to collect her photos and we got ambushed by students on their way to bed all wanting to look trhough them. They love seeing photos of us, although we did have to remove the ones of us covered in mud because although we are wearing swim suits, you can't tell! We wouldn;t want to corrupt any young monds now so out they came. Following this I had an arguement with a student. He thought iwas very rich, which of course i wam not earning just 150 punds a month. I ws impressed that he managed to hold an arguement and was as bold to say "I don;t believe you!" the cheeky monkey.
We have started on the playscript with P6 and have assigned all of the parts. There was an arguement over some of the parts because no-one wanted to be the prince or ciderella or snow white. I also upset one student. he was down to play doper (virtually no lines) but his english is rather good and he is the tallest in his class, so I swapped him with a a shy student whose english skills are less than impressive. The poor boy was heartbrokem and desperately wanted to be a dwarf. all of his freidns (also playing dwarves but all considerably shorter) rushed over yelling "i chnge with him he dwarf i change!" it's good to have such caring friends, and the boy has his way and shall be playing sneezey. It was endearing to see how the boys were so determined to make sure that thier friend was happy!

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