Qingquan Hote Weihai

... struck by a storm on the sea and missed their routes. After many days of wandering, the food and fresh water were almost used up. At the brink of complete despair, a sailor found at night a dot of fire in the distance. He then shouted excited to all the others:"We are saved! We are saved!" This slightest gleam of hope encouraged all the people onboard.

They tried their best to ...

... please some stupid officials. WARNING to all travellers out there, if you want to travel to South Korea from Weihai in China by ferry and you dolt have a visa (even if you don't need to one because you are exempted some counties are) Weihai ferry employees wont sell you a ticket. It's not a problem if you go from Tianjin cause I done it, and I'm not sure about Quingdao

... of school came on and sat in a row with red scarf's tied round their necks and talked for nearly an hour about god knows what (one of the lowlights) I also got to hear Auld Lang Syne in Korean, Chinese and English, however no one seems to believe me that this was a Scottish song and they think Im just a crazy Scottish person.The highlight of the day had to be the primary 4 kids dancing around in red army uniforms. Que lots of cute photographs in my photo ...

... in true frustrated teacher fashion) Spoken in rapid Glaswegian though, so as not to actually be understood. And of course they just continued to stare blankly. The fact that I have difficulty with they're facial expressions seems to work both ways, they cannot read mine either so it took them around a minute to figure out I was angry. I have also been discovering that around half of the middle school boys do not speak English, and this is accepted by the teachers which makes ...

Hey hey we'r the monkeys Today I took the bus with ben to Nanshan(around 1 hour south west of Yantai) where he was getting his tattoo finished (a bamboo forest on his calf) to see the famous Nanshan Grand Budda statue of Sakyamumi. Its 40 meters tall, weighs 380 tons and is made of bronze and tin. It really was an incredible sight and was surrounded by amazing views, many temples, pagodas and ancient gardens. It took a ...

... to teach. Me falling over a chair at the side of the stage then onto a bin when stretching to write something in the corner of the black board was an excellent moment. Especially as it was in front of 40 near adults. I didn't no whether to laugh or cry. Mhairi's various spelling mistakes: Adjetive (where is the C Miss ...

Well I'm in Taiyuan now, having said my fond farewells to Yantai, so thought I better update you briefly on the events on the last few weeks. Sorry about all the drinking parents, too many goodbyes to say! Um, well after returning from my travels we had the joy of a week of saying goodbye to Alex and Emily in various guises. We went for an amazing meal the night before they left at a restaurant where u could basically pick anything you wanted to eat, it was very ...

Well I have now reached a level of fame of truly epic proportions. After being snapped having a picnic last week and being put in the paper to show how truly beautiful the weather was if Westerners could bring themselves to venture outside, I have now got my very own article! Of course I wasn't warned about this until the journalist had turned up at the school, and I suddenly had to pretend teach a class who were in the middle of ...

Hello! Yes sadly the dreams about finding a cheese shop are getting more and more frequent... For those of you who think I've gone mad (well I probably have) the sad truth is they don't eat cheese out here and I miss it. The only 'cheese' they have resembles diarylee which is tragic! I've heard rumours of an out of town shop that may stock cheese, I think a trip is sorely needed! Anyway I'm also yearning after water! Yes that fundamental element that I currently ...

Hello its me again, back with some joyful tales of China. I have now finished my second week of teaching and all is going well, the kids even seem to be listening, and I've been causing a few stirs as I do things like flash round pictures of the 'Elephant Man' during my Senior class. I'm not sure they were really prepared for that one! But equally, as I've been ...