I say goodbye, but we've actually got another few hundred km to go in wa. Right now we're at a roadhouse in norseman, known as the southern gateway to the west. We stayes 3 nights at a place called lucky bay, and I swam in the sea. Dick spent a lot of time in his deck chair,with his feet dangling in the sea. There were quite a lot of young ( Read more... )

I've been in Aus 4 days now.  Perth was so like England it's unreal, but I've headed to the countryside today which is great.  here's a detailed lowdown of my trip ( Read more... )

Today I took my friend Mark to Pinglin ( Read more... )

Sorry I haven't been filling you in on life at Nan Ao so much ( Read more... )

I've now slept two night here.  The first night, I didn't sleep that well. We're given Tatami mats to sleep on, which are about as hard as the floor, and I'm not used to that, so it was a little uncomfortable.  While trying to sleep, I wished I could sleep in my own bed, use my own bathroom etc.  I also felt that, although people are being nice to ( Read more... )

Hello to new friends.

I'm an English teacher, living in Taiwan. 
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I had my last Chinese lesson yesterday, and I'm not sure I'm going to pay for any more. it'll be nice to have my Tuesday mornings free again, and they were a little expensive, so I can just study from the book from now on. I might do more lessons if there's a group class going at my level, we'll see.

I'm looking forward to the weekend. It's my ( Read more... )

I had my first real Chinese lesson yesterday.  It was a language exchange, so I also helped him out with his english writing.  I had to do the basics - go over bo pu mu fu (the "alphabet" - a load of phonetic symbols Chinese children learn first, before they start learning all the actual Chinese symbols)  He went through how I can hear a word, and ( Read more... )