Aug
20
2011
Many people have seen, or at least heard of, the film “Avatar”. Of those people, nearly everyone would’ve assumed that since it was one of the biggest CGI and 3D films on the planet then the scenery was 100% CGI. The scenery in Avatar was, in fact, real and I had the chance to visit …
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Aug
07
2011
As mentioned in the previous post, we had two days off and wanted to go somewhere! We decided to go to Xi’an (pronounced “She-ann”) to see the Terracotta Warriors. To say we enjoyed it would be a bit of an understatement – it was amazing! Our journey began at 0330 on Wednesday morning – whoever …
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Jul
24
2011
So, after three weeks of attempting to go to Changsha for the weekend, we finally managed it! On Wednesday we asked the volunteers to book us a hotel and train ticket – only to find 2 minutes later that catching a train isn’t actually safe for “foreigners” because there are (apparently) a lot of people …
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Jul
19
2011
Titled as such because we haven’t done much in the past week other than plan lessons and embrace radical change after even more radical changes. We’re planning on heading away somewhere for the weekend and have Monday and Tuesday off – so hopefully I’ll have something to blog about! However, it was Hilary’s birthday on …
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Jul
09
2011
Wednesday we played basketball with the Government officials that share the building next to the school – we had our arses handed to us on a plate. However, it was extremely fun! On arrival the court was taken by some “youths” however, once the government officials entered the court it was ours – that’d never …
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Jul
06
2011
So Saturday was the day of our first “organised excursion” by Yandi Institute. It was only a one day excursion but it was amazing! We were taken to one of the five great mountains (Wikipedia information) – the south mountain, Mount Heng. Everyone was shoved into a coach at the lovely, early time of 0800 …
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Jul
01
2011
So, it appears that just being British means I have random photos taken of me… James (our guardian angel) found a newspaper article with a picture of us in the musical fountains! The actual translation is: “Some foreign friends took a walk at Shennong Square enjoying the music fountain in the crowd and the coolness …
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Jun
29
2011
Today I had my first real insight into teaching. Talk about throwing us in at the deep end! We got into the office this morning and were presented with the task for our workshop – to choose a grammar topic (from a hat), spend 40 minutes preparing it and then teach it to each other …
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Jun
27
2011
We’ve just returned from Yandi Square, Zhuzhou city, where they have a fantastic fountain display (type thing) every evening at 1920. Whilst most go to watch; we went to run through the water and get soaking wet! I think I may have stretched my t-shirt somewhat… After dancing and singing in the rain, we watched …
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Jun
26
2011
It’s Sunday and we’re up at 0900! We were meant to start Tai Chi / Kung Fu lessons today but it appears that there has been a clerical error and we aren’t able to start this week. So, a nice relaxing morning around the flat instead! This afternoon we’ve got a basketball game, a spring/water …
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