Last week was really good, I had Mexican dinner with my friends. Although it took one hour to arrive and it was quite small, it was just nice to make contact with adults who could speak English not Chinglish (Chinese English). The restaurant was surrounded by Americans, they seem to be everywhere, all giggly and enthusiastic, pretending they love their jobs and making us British people feel bad for hating the first few weeks of teaching. (LOL) why do i sound so angry right??.....

These are my favorite students of the week. Koko, Jenny, Pat and Melody (i think). In total i teach a total of 600 students (I cant say its meaningful teaching) so i find it really hard to keep up with their text book English names and I have stopped asking after their Chinese names since it takes me 2 secs to forget. These students come to pick me up for lessons!!, I take this as an indication that they are willing and interested in learning but when i get to the classroom, its a different story. Their loyalty is to their friends first before any teacher.

Fast forward to Friday. It was Ria's birthday and the thought of meeting up with friends kept me going from wednesday-friday. It was an eventful night, a lot to drink (free drinks from Chinese people). We met some new people (american and Chinese) who added color to the evening, the birthday girl on the right looked lovely in white and had a lovely night. As usual, it was fun to share and swap teaching stories with others and catch up on interesting things people had done during the week.

I really enjoyed this week and I hope next week will be even better. Pictures of my trip to the beach coming up and also pictures of the cutest 6 year old twin girls in my class coming up!. Hope everyone has a great week ahead, I miss you all...xx