Well I finally feel like I've settled in, though there are still moments that I feel like I'm in another universe.

There is a great bunch of teachers from all of the world who are going to be a great support network when I start feeling 'fragile' :)

I've spent the last few days getting to know the other teachers, discovering the surrounding district and buying DVDs for Au$2!

Orientation starts on Friday (which I think is the day after tomorrow) so the fun is nearly over and the hard slog starts. After 3 days of training we then go into a 5 day working week, so we're all going to be exhausted by the weekend and won't feel like going out at all!

There are a couple of nice 'foreign' restaurants and bars but they cost 3-4 times as much as chinese restaurants. One of us always seems to have a phrase book with us so it's not too bad.

I had a lovely day today with Klara, Kathryn and Olivia having our nails done at the Walmart centre (picture below). It cost about Au$8 to get a manicure and flowers painted on my nails! I think it might be a once-a-month treat.

We're going out again tonight, so I'll try and take some pictures of Nancheng (my district) Walking Street and post tonight or tomorrow on my flikr account.

Love
Katrina

PS. For some reason, my a's are being capitalised when followed by an u. Strange.

written by  KatrinaB on August 30, 2006 from Dongguan, China
from the travel blog: China Dreaming
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AU au whaut??? Lucky you, you were the first to notice the grand AU bug!

Blogabond automatically replaces frequently used city names with links (see: Seattle, Paris, Vienna). That's great and all, until somebody comes along and writes a Blog entry from Van in Turkey, Hope in Canada or worst of all, Au in Austria.

Fortunately, you caught this for us before it could trash too many blog entries. I've gone ahead and de-capitilized the middles of your words for you. Keep up the reports!

Jason

written by  Jason Kester on October 13, 2006

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