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Gunbei!
So time for an update. We have now started teaching, got our permanent schedule, and so we will each have 18 classes a week. However some of the freshman are currently doing two weeks 'military training', this is hilarious to watch, they just stand for hours on end being shouted at in the hot sun and occasionally will change position! So we won't teach them until after the October holiday we don't think (but being china it ...
We have company...
... the chinese boys. Thursday was day one of teaching. Jo had a class at 8am in the morning. The day before we had prepared an introductary lecture that we would both do to each of our new classes, which involved us introducing ourselves and then asking them all to introduce themselves individually. We were both quite nervous, as we didn't really know what to expect. Luckily, they all seem to speak relatively good english, though they probably think ...
Hairy armpits
So today we went swimming at Olympic Park, we were the only two people in the pool yet seemed to attract many spectators- all male who happily stood and starred at us for the entire time. The Chinese do like to spit, and so every now and then one of these men would spit into the pool, it wasn't a particularly pleasant experience but its a pretty impressive venue to swim ...
New home
... pretty modern university- with all the teachers living in the same apartment blocks. So far we are the only 'western' people here so we get starred at 24/7 and laughed at and most definitely ripped off with everything we try and buy. But everyone atleast seems pretty friendly. The campus has a lot of trees and places to walk around and a large area of sports courts/tracks etc. We are being looked ...
Another family home (and a tourist town!)
... Nice car, though.
He wasn’t really into it, and neither was Jin Shan. Bit of a strange day.
First we had a meal with many members of Jin’s wife’s family, in a little restaurant in Jinggangzhen.
The town was very nice, if reconstructed, but what isn’t here, apart from some Buddhist temples. Enjoyed walking around a relatively sedate town, even in the steaming heat.
The town is also the ...