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Prisoner on the 12th floor

Hello! Here I am, it's 4.25am and I can't sleep....I've been overloaded with sleep over the last few days and now I'm wide awake. Hmmm...let's go back a few days....on Monday I actually had a good class! Yay!! There were lots of disruptions to classes this week because there were health...

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arterra on October 26, 2007 from Dongguan, China

from the travel blog: China Adventure

The lift

A funny story..well, it cracked me up anyway.... One night, a while ago, we arrived home to find that the lift wouldn't budge from the 12th floor - we kept hitting the button, but the lift was not going anywhere. So we had to climb the 12 flights of stairs (we paused at floor number 6,...

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arterra on October 26, 2007 from Dongguan, China

from the travel blog: China Adventure

(In the words of Kath and Kim) - 'That was eyebrow'!

Hello! Another little blog entry....we had an interesting night last night - Dalene was given some tickets to a concert, but she had other plans (she's from South Africa, so she was preparing to watch the rugby final!)...so she kindly gave them to us. So I got dressed up for the first time...

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arterra on October 20, 2007 from Dongguan, China

from the travel blog: China Adventure

He marched them up to the top of the hill...and he marched them down again

Hi there, We just got back from our little excursion this morning - it was a very early start for a Saturday morning...the alarm went off at 5.45am...and then to our dismay we discovered that the water was off...the water supply has been intermittent this week! So we had to just douse...

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arterra on October 19, 2007 from Dongguan, China

from the travel blog: China Adventure

You are very beautiful today

Hello! Hooray Hooray Hooray, it's Friday! Friday is the best. I have just one class - a Grade 2 singing lesson, and Andrew has one PE class. Then in the afternoon I have the five Grade 5 girls for a couple of hours- today I promised them that they could come over to our place, so that will...

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arterra on October 18, 2007 from Dongguan, China

from the travel blog: China Adventure

Shenyang - Back to Normality (ish!)

I cant belive 2 weeks has passed already since returning from South Korea. When I finally made it back to my apartment in desperate need of a shower, I wasn't best pleased to find that my water heater had broken and my water was freezing cold. I also found that since I hadn't been there to kill...

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emmarogers85 on October 18, 2007 from Shenyang, China

from the travel blog: Teach and Travel China - 6 Months

Shanghai - The Biggest City in China

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Governor Patrick to lead trade mission to China (Greg Baker/AP) Visitors walked past Beijing's Tiananmen Gate today. By Globe Staff Governor Deval Patrick will travel to China in late November, making stops in Beijing and Shanghai, hoping to promote...

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jackyang33 on October 17, 2007 from Shanghai, China

from the travel blog: Shanghai Travel

My name is dumplings

Hello! Friday night is here at last...best night of the week. After school Jack, the computer teacher, came over to our place - I think he was curious to see it. From there we caught a taxi to Yin Feng Liu (Yin Feng Road) - I even asked the taxi driver myself - wow, my Chinese is just...

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arterra on October 12, 2007 from Dongguan, China

from the travel blog: China Adventure

The end of the week...

Hi there, Wow, the holidays seem like an age ago! It was so nice to have that break, but hard to get back into school - I think the kids feel that way too. Tonight we had our second Chinese lesson - Belinda from the school takes our class - she works in the finance office so it's good to...

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arterra on October 11, 2007 from Dongguan, China

from the travel blog: China Adventure

Hairy arms and taxi rides

Hi there, It's a hot Saturday afternoon in Dongguan. I think it's about 32 degrees and with all the concrete around it feels even hotter! We went out this morning and explored 'South China Mall' which is only about 10 minutes down the road by taxi...but there wasn't that much there apart...

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arterra on October 5, 2007 from Dongguan, China

from the travel blog: China Adventure

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