So it has been a long time since I have posted. I know it was meant to be once a month and yes I am damn lazy. Sorry to one and all. Free time is not a thing I seem to have either that or I have become an expert at wasting it, which I wasn’t before (so at least china has taught me something). So what has been up the past 3 months or so? Quite a bit as you can readily imagine, although it probably 1) would take far too long to go through everything and my fingers would be bleeding after the epic novel that is my life was put on the web 2) would take you all about a month to read and 3) A bit like point one but I don’t think I have the patience left to write so much.
So round up: January included my birthday – which was fun cos I got to go bowling, you would be surprised at how hard it is to find a bowling alley in China – I mean we ended up bowling in the basement of a hotel which had 4 private lanes in a small ish room. For 10 RMB a game I think it was a bargain. The other interesting bit was that I heard of a massive new bowling alley recently and supposedly bowling teams could be set up. Bring on the laowai rollers (laowai – is the term in Chinese for foreigner).
February saw the end of 3 months straight teaching and I was let off on holiday for 4 weeks for spring festival. Traveled from the north to the south of china and basically spent more money than I had and came back broke. But the places were fantastic, took far too many pictures that I ended up buying a new memory card for my camera. Will post the public links to facebook where I have put all my pics. So if you have a couple of hours to spare and feel like wasting your time on something frivolous feel free. Im not selling it well eh. They are good but it is just me and lots of other people you may not know in relatively famous places.
Anyways to give you the list of the places I hit and in travel order: Shanghai – Haerbin (for the famous ice festival – basically lots of ice sculptures) – Beijing (come on you have to: great wall, temple of heaven, forbidden city its got it all) – Xian (I think I could take on a real like terracotta warrior) and finally Kunming (the city of eternal spring).
The hols were a great laugh and it was real hard to get back into the teaching lark again – especially with the demons that are class 9. Not only do they make so much noise your head begins to think that an airplane engine is quite but they never listen. Im considering in next class bringing some duck tape along and threatening to tape up mouths that speak out of turn (if only I had this power).
Well now im back at work plodding along and trying desperately to apply for some physics/renewable energy work in good ol
No pics sorry - too many to choose from and well once i get the facebook links sorted you can see em all at your own leisure. Arnt you just eggin to see Tian'an men square :)
