Day 29!

I cant believe tomorrow is my last full day in Beijing! This last week or so has flown by! I have spent alot of time in the classroom, working hard, but have also had plenty of time for fun! I visited The Summer Palace yesterday. Unfortunatly it was raining but I still really enjoyed it there! We decided to hire a peddelo and venture to the other side of the lake. It was great fun apart from when I was peddeling! It took us 30 minutes to get to one side of the lake, where we swapped over as it was my turn to peddle, then realising we only had ten minutes to get back!After what felt like an eternity of peddeling like my life depended on it and feeling like we werent moving we finally mad it back in time!
In the evening I went to see an acrobatics show! I really enjoyed it!! Unfortunatly taking cameras into the theater was forbidden (along with dangerous explosives and fluid according to the back of my ticket!!!) but being the rebel that I am I did manage to take a couple of sneaky illegal pics, although the quality isnt fantastic! The show was incredible, I had goosebumps the whole time and would reccomend anyone in Beijing to go and see it!
I have my final 2 lessons of the course tomorrow and will be leaving for Shenyang on Wednesday 29th August at 2pm local time. Shenyang is pretty close and will only take 4 hours on the high speed train! I will be teaching at Shenyang Dandelion Kindergaten ages as young as 2 (eek!) and as old as 6!! Although this could change! I have been given all the details about my transport to the scool and my accomodation upon arrival, but I wont know for definite until I arrive! Things change here last minute and nothing is definite until you are actually doing it, when you ask for a reason the answer you always get is: ' This is China!!' It can get a little frustrating at times, but everytime I hear it I cant help smiling! What else can you say!!!

Beijing, China