Sorry for the lack of updates dear readers but I have been
super duper busy! Now let me fill you in from the beginning!
Saturday
Excursion day! This week I was with Gu Chengtai and we were off to the science museum! Had a great time with the kids and I think I managed to infuriate the guards on more than one occasion! I love Gu Chengtai as the kids are just so easily amused by me! We had a great morning!
Saturday
Excursion day! This week I was with Gu Chengtai and we were off to the science museum! Had a great time with the kids and I think I managed to infuriate the guards on more than one occasion! I love Gu Chengtai as the kids are just so easily amused by me! We had a great morning!
One of my kids, David, invited me
back to his house to meet his family and eat lunch! It was really great! The
food was delicious although they eat salmon frozen here, weird huh?
Soon it was time for the English corner and I got lost. Now the English corner is on the top floor of an apartment building. I went up 3 buildings before I found the right one... To say I was out of breath and peeved would have been an understatement!
My English corner with Deena went really well! We had a good time and I think the kids did too! We looked at money and buying things. These kids are going to be in for shock when they realise how expensive things are in England!
Mike, Cecilia and I headed to Cafe Java for dinner as Will and Deena went to the train station because they were off to a neighbouring city called Lanzhou for the weekend. We bumped into Netty and old English teacher in Xining and it was nice to catch up with her! We then bumped into one of Michaels students an 18 year old called Katie with very good English! Awkward for Mike but funny for us!
Sunday
This was a rare occasion when we have a Weena free weekend! They had gone to Lanzhou for the weekend. Mike had a basket ball date so Cecili and I had a more leisurely start to the day. After dragging ourselves out of bed (figure of speech for me but literally for Cecilia) we headed into Xining to meet Mike! Turns out he got stood up, poor Mike...
Now the plan was for Michael Li to take us to Fish's mum in hospital so we wanted to get her some flowers. Naturally, we headed straight to Xining's flower market! I should probably mention that recently my hayfever has been going nuts so a flower market was bound to be a lot of fun! I endured and we emerged triumphant with a potted flower; Cecilia could probably tell you what type, but all Mike and I could tell you is that the flowers were red...
Anyway it was now time for lunch so we jumped in a taxi to the food court near the office. I got some rather disappointing dumplings.
Soon we were off to the office and, once Michael Li was ready, we set off to the hospital.
We arrived and after a brief spell of being lost we met up with Fish. I had missed that woman so much! She introduced us to her mother who then proceeded to scald Fish because she hadn't offered us anything to eat and drink yet. Looks like mothers are the same around the world! Although apparently in China mothers are very controlling and over-protective of their children (or in most cases child).
Fish's mum is recovering well and will soon be back at home and that means we will soon have Fish back! So happy days all round! We left the hospital in high spirits and Michael Li dropped us off at People's Park. Mike wanted to play more basketball so Cecilia and I went wandering. We decided we'd go on the monorail that goes around the park. Now although 'monorail' is technically correct, having ridden it, we'd describe it as more of a rollercoaster! It went so fast the turns were very sudden and jolty. Was fun though and we didn't die!
Soon it was time for the English corner and I got lost. Now the English corner is on the top floor of an apartment building. I went up 3 buildings before I found the right one... To say I was out of breath and peeved would have been an understatement!
My English corner with Deena went really well! We had a good time and I think the kids did too! We looked at money and buying things. These kids are going to be in for shock when they realise how expensive things are in England!
Mike, Cecilia and I headed to Cafe Java for dinner as Will and Deena went to the train station because they were off to a neighbouring city called Lanzhou for the weekend. We bumped into Netty and old English teacher in Xining and it was nice to catch up with her! We then bumped into one of Michaels students an 18 year old called Katie with very good English! Awkward for Mike but funny for us!
Sunday
This was a rare occasion when we have a Weena free weekend! They had gone to Lanzhou for the weekend. Mike had a basket ball date so Cecili and I had a more leisurely start to the day. After dragging ourselves out of bed (figure of speech for me but literally for Cecilia) we headed into Xining to meet Mike! Turns out he got stood up, poor Mike...
Now the plan was for Michael Li to take us to Fish's mum in hospital so we wanted to get her some flowers. Naturally, we headed straight to Xining's flower market! I should probably mention that recently my hayfever has been going nuts so a flower market was bound to be a lot of fun! I endured and we emerged triumphant with a potted flower; Cecilia could probably tell you what type, but all Mike and I could tell you is that the flowers were red...
Anyway it was now time for lunch so we jumped in a taxi to the food court near the office. I got some rather disappointing dumplings.
Soon we were off to the office and, once Michael Li was ready, we set off to the hospital.
We arrived and after a brief spell of being lost we met up with Fish. I had missed that woman so much! She introduced us to her mother who then proceeded to scald Fish because she hadn't offered us anything to eat and drink yet. Looks like mothers are the same around the world! Although apparently in China mothers are very controlling and over-protective of their children (or in most cases child).
Fish's mum is recovering well and will soon be back at home and that means we will soon have Fish back! So happy days all round! We left the hospital in high spirits and Michael Li dropped us off at People's Park. Mike wanted to play more basketball so Cecilia and I went wandering. We decided we'd go on the monorail that goes around the park. Now although 'monorail' is technically correct, having ridden it, we'd describe it as more of a rollercoaster! It went so fast the turns were very sudden and jolty. Was fun though and we didn't die!
Next stop was the fairground in the park; we had both regressed to children by this point, well I had, so rides were the answer! I chose the log flume and managed to convince Cecilia to come by assuring her that she wouldn't get wet. I may have been lying... Needless to say, we both got soaked! It was hilarious though because Cecilia spent the whole ride cursing me!
Next stop was the bumper cars! Cecilia certainly got her own back! Turns out she is rather good at bumper cars, though I got some good bumps too!
By this
point it was dinner time so we met up with Mike and went to someplace new to
eat, a restaurant called Boronia. We got steak! It wasn't very good steak but
it was steak!!
Back to school for a quiet night as I had school in the morning... on my day off!
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