Well iv had to write this in a hurry as the school is closed and i have to leave but i want to get a few things down first. so ignore all the spelling mistakes
I have had a few questions from different people so i will try and answer them now.
My eldest class Kinder Garten has two disabled students in the class... or maby three. one death, one who cannot speak or read or react to almost anything, and the last that im unsure of, he doesn't get on with the other kids and spends most his time hiding behind a piano, refusing to join in the lessons.
My middle class, Pre Kinder Garten. is relatively normal but they haven figured out they are meant to learn things, they just scream and shout and run around, it is very difficult to teach this class.
My youngest class. the Nursery class. 3 bright students, 1 very disruptive student and the rest should not really be getting forced to learn any thing, they are way to young. some can barley walk. The bright students one is a bit to intelligent and after joining the class for 5 mins she knows all the words and drifts off. which is under standible.
My flat.
I now have a hot shower and with no leaks in sight this could be quite a good set up. i have had to clean out the kitchen sink as a terrible smell started to radiate from it, i took the whole thing apart, empties the ubends and washed out all the pipework that was visible (thanks Allen) now it no longer smells (big thumbs up)
My book.
The book i was writing i have decided to scrap. with different people saying different things i think i will go with the crowds voice and stop. thanks anyway people.
The police have followed me home and asked for my registration documents. to which i phoned up a my boss and he solved the problem. the police have since left me alone.
a shop that u use for buying small things. cigarettes and bottles of water and things seem to have employed an English speaking girl in the last week. her english is very good indeed, but still lacks imagination.
my written language is coming on leaps and bounds, i can now see the odd symble that i know on most signs, even if it water or work or small. as long as i can read it i feel quite proud.
My local shop that sold chicken burgers has closed down and a massage thing has opend up. will explore next weekend and let you know how things go.
Private work.
i had a communication from Tiger, asking if i could teach his family oral English, i have refused this as it would be a breach of contract and take up hours of my day that i don't really want to sacrifice as i have enough money to survive as it is.
Dentist.
Well it has come again, as i though it would, the time when i have a pain in my tooth, after prodding it once with a tooth pick i was dismayed to see the end of the tooth pick covered with blood, it seems i have a cavity near the front of the top right side of my mouth, just passed the canine tooth inbetwen the first two moulers.
Bloody painful.
My head acks have all but subsided, i am pretty sure it was spending to much time infornt of the laptop.
The hospital.
When i went to the hospital to get checked out for my head acks, first liyang went and paid then i was directed up the the baby section to the only english speaking staff member in the hospital, this was fine, then i was taken to another office then to a nother office in which it was Finlay decided that i was dehydrated, they gave me a load of pills (well not exactly true, they sold me a load of pills, told me to take 4 three times a day, if i was not better after 4 days to come back. they sold me 80 pills... the math doesn't quite add up..), told me to drink plenty of water. and sleep. i started to feel better and watch a dvd on my laptop, then the headache returned with avangents. this is how i came to the conclusion of the laptop hurting me.. i cannot wait to see the dentist :-) should be so much fun.. i hear they very rearly use anaesthetic so i pray that they just use a bit of glue, and cover over the problem.
ok thats tha lot this time.
speak soon
mark
Tuesday 31 March 2009
Friday 27 March 2009
The new language
i am no longer gaining ground on what chinese language i know.. in fact as i know i have forgoten some you might say i am going backwords.. however, as my words that i use do not increas my ability to read and write is improving rapidly by Liyangs mother who watchs over me and liyang, she made sure i learnt the words befor writing doing in charictors, "you (pluraly, me and liyang) must learn in order to have future" or almost that, direct translation is not easy as it dosnt make sence (right dad?)
todays words that i must be able to read/write in pinyin and charictors, and say perfectly by the end of the day test are, small , big, water, fire, work, up, down.. and i must be able to write in Pin Yin and say= Must, Hill, Learn.
i was abit unsure when liyangs mother first came, but now i am happy that she is here. liyang is learning alot of english while i am at work and has far more words to learn each day than me.
Also the exelant food that is cooked each day is really doing me good. i am sure i havenever eaten this much befor in my life,, think i am putting on a little weight.
i have even gotten used to my bed on the sofa.. i am finding writing the chinese charictors a lot easyer than writing english, it seems to me that my writing is neater (as it has to be or you could say something incorrect) than it is in my native hand.
I have all but given up on the chinese classes provided by the school as it costs way to much to get to them for the two hour lesson, it would be cheaper to hire a private tutor near me than to go to TTLV and take the lesson. it costs me 80 rmb for a return trip to TTLV. stupidly expensive.
any way im off to learn some more of this new mirical, my ability to write neatly. bye for now
todays words that i must be able to read/write in pinyin and charictors, and say perfectly by the end of the day test are, small , big, water, fire, work, up, down.. and i must be able to write in Pin Yin and say= Must, Hill, Learn.
i was abit unsure when liyangs mother first came, but now i am happy that she is here. liyang is learning alot of english while i am at work and has far more words to learn each day than me.
Also the exelant food that is cooked each day is really doing me good. i am sure i havenever eaten this much befor in my life,, think i am putting on a little weight.
i have even gotten used to my bed on the sofa.. i am finding writing the chinese charictors a lot easyer than writing english, it seems to me that my writing is neater (as it has to be or you could say something incorrect) than it is in my native hand.
I have all but given up on the chinese classes provided by the school as it costs way to much to get to them for the two hour lesson, it would be cheaper to hire a private tutor near me than to go to TTLV and take the lesson. it costs me 80 rmb for a return trip to TTLV. stupidly expensive.
any way im off to learn some more of this new mirical, my ability to write neatly. bye for now
Tuesday 24 March 2009
25 of march, paul requested some photos here they are.
some words that i have to teach the 2-3 year old class....
And liyang and here mother cooking... (her mother has come up for a few days, meaning i have to sleep on the sofa or the rock hard spare bed, i choose the sofa.) and the othere photo is just one of the experiments i have started to do with my phone.
a teacher i get on with well.
At the end of the day,, when all the othere classes parents had come and the crying had subsided from the happy children, Tao Tao was left in front of the tv. She seemed resigned to the fact her mother was not there, every othere child crys regardles of parents being here(happy) or not (very very very sad) tao tao just sit's in silents... looked very adult to me.
Parking skills need to be improved
As requested by paul... here is a photo of me.
You could say living here has slightly changed my appearance
Any one fancie a quicke???
This is the burger i talked about in a previouse post... not exactly what is said on the packaging....
and lastly another photo i like......
well thats it for me.. i will now cheack my emails and go home and eat. read and then sleep... ooo i love my lunch breaks.. 5 and 1/2 hours of lunching and messingf around. bye for now
And liyang and here mother cooking... (her mother has come up for a few days, meaning i have to sleep on the sofa or the rock hard spare bed, i choose the sofa.) and the othere photo is just one of the experiments i have started to do with my phone.
a teacher i get on with well.
At the end of the day,, when all the othere classes parents had come and the crying had subsided from the happy children, Tao Tao was left in front of the tv. She seemed resigned to the fact her mother was not there, every othere child crys regardles of parents being here(happy) or not (very very very sad) tao tao just sit's in silents... looked very adult to me.
Parking skills need to be improved
As requested by paul... here is a photo of me.
You could say living here has slightly changed my appearance
Any one fancie a quicke???
This is the burger i talked about in a previouse post... not exactly what is said on the packaging....
and lastly another photo i like......
well thats it for me.. i will now cheack my emails and go home and eat. read and then sleep... ooo i love my lunch breaks.. 5 and 1/2 hours of lunching and messingf around. bye for now
Sunday 22 March 2009
23 of the 3rd
hello every one.
I have had my computer fixed at work. so here i am . 12:16 at the computer in a other wise empty room.
i had a bit of a cold but that has gone now and i didnt feel like going to the internet cafe this weekend to update this blog.... no excuse just lazyness.
out side my appartment they have demolished the side of a building and the stairs to it, (i think it was the fire escape) and a wall about 70-80meters long and rebuilt it with guard house and electric gate (like you get in car parks in england) and a more substantual gate they pull across the entrance/ exit at night. all in the space of 3 days. they also took off all the old moter around the thousands of bricks that were in the old wall and stacked them neatly on the back of different pick up trucks (yes they recycle thoses bricks). it all looks very nice now.
my chinese is coming on slowly but surely. i am sure i have forgotten words that i first learned but i only remember that i have forgotten them when i try and remmember them to use them. (still following?)(....)(good)
i see i have a few registered followers now.. very good. and to the non registered people.. shame on you.!
i have gotten used to the food but no to the way of thinking... i was in the supermarket earliyer with liyang, she was reading a hand out, i picked it out of her hand and she stopped and looked at me.. said "1.....2"..
i finnished of with "3"
she turned around and walked off.. i shouted after her but to no avail. i walked round the supermarket with the empty trolly for a few mins then got rid of the trolly and walked out, i tryed to phone her and she canceld the call on me. then after a while she called me. and said "where are you"
"outside"
"awwt.......side... wo bu zuodao" (i not know) "ni... you go house"
"i go computer. ok?" i knew she knew this one.
"ok bye" beep beep beep
by her tone i dont think she is annoyed with me its just the way the chinese seem to be some times, especialy when they are paying fdor a phone call. however i have had very long chats with a shop worker, that located near me, but as she was getting paid for it, it dosent count.
I have ralyed the othere teachers into a poker game next week, with any luck it will be a couple of hours of fun and pleasent english chatting. along with a beer or two.
the weather here is hot and sunny. (and its still only march.)
any way i hope to put a few pick up later today...
love you all
marko
I have had my computer fixed at work. so here i am . 12:16 at the computer in a other wise empty room.
i had a bit of a cold but that has gone now and i didnt feel like going to the internet cafe this weekend to update this blog.... no excuse just lazyness.
out side my appartment they have demolished the side of a building and the stairs to it, (i think it was the fire escape) and a wall about 70-80meters long and rebuilt it with guard house and electric gate (like you get in car parks in england) and a more substantual gate they pull across the entrance/ exit at night. all in the space of 3 days. they also took off all the old moter around the thousands of bricks that were in the old wall and stacked them neatly on the back of different pick up trucks (yes they recycle thoses bricks). it all looks very nice now.
my chinese is coming on slowly but surely. i am sure i have forgotten words that i first learned but i only remember that i have forgotten them when i try and remmember them to use them. (still following?)(....)(good)
i see i have a few registered followers now.. very good. and to the non registered people.. shame on you.!
i have gotten used to the food but no to the way of thinking... i was in the supermarket earliyer with liyang, she was reading a hand out, i picked it out of her hand and she stopped and looked at me.. said "1.....2"..
i finnished of with "3"
she turned around and walked off.. i shouted after her but to no avail. i walked round the supermarket with the empty trolly for a few mins then got rid of the trolly and walked out, i tryed to phone her and she canceld the call on me. then after a while she called me. and said "where are you"
"outside"
"awwt.......side... wo bu zuodao" (i not know) "ni... you go house"
"i go computer. ok?" i knew she knew this one.
"ok bye" beep beep beep
by her tone i dont think she is annoyed with me its just the way the chinese seem to be some times, especialy when they are paying fdor a phone call. however i have had very long chats with a shop worker, that located near me, but as she was getting paid for it, it dosent count.
I have ralyed the othere teachers into a poker game next week, with any luck it will be a couple of hours of fun and pleasent english chatting. along with a beer or two.
the weather here is hot and sunny. (and its still only march.)
any way i hope to put a few pick up later today...
love you all
marko
Wednesday 18 March 2009
What a strange place
well a couple of things.. i will email picsoff tomorrow.
Yesterday i bought a burger in a packet... dosent sound to nice but hey i needed a burger, i got home opend the packed to find my self looking at a big bun,,, no meat. i looked again at the packet and it clearly says Hamburger... no mention that there is no ham.grrr as paul knows they have a tendancy to lie about whats in side, (summer palace, he bought a spegettie bolonase thing, it turned out to be a spegettie and brown sludge,,,. a bit like what you get after you eat it.)
((((also a big thank you to Paul, for sending me a package, and David (dad) for sending me some books))))
in my kindergarten i have a music cd. that i have to play each lesson and do the dance moves, greatfun for all the staff to watch a westoner prance around like a mad fool. either way there is a really scary song. on the TV there is a women in a rabbit outfit, and she is singing. (voice over is easy to reacognise as it finishes befor she dose,, in fact she is still silently singing when it cuts out,) and in this song, the corus (whcioh is sung by the women on the tv) take aunexpectely deep mans voice, it really puts me off the moves and makes me quite frightend.
Othere than those, i can only report i have the flu, and the heat is getting stifaling, even the walk to work (up 4 flights of stairs) and im shatterd and sweating.
Mylaptop.
I have totaly lostwindows now. i have installed a operating system called PUP on a USB stick, this works for music,dvds and allowes meto save what files i need. oncei figger out how to do it.
Kindergarten
i amgetting a bit more usedto it. i have another one of my oldclasses pop in today to say hi. that was nice. and the kids seem to miss me. although they have been given anothere english teacher who isnt white, and isnt from a native english country, but he is good at what he dose and he knows all the kids names. and can speak chinese perfectly, hopefully i will beable to getto his level at some point.
The space bar dose not work very well so as i can see there are some places where words are joind and the bad letterson the key bord havent registerd. still its betterthan nothing. i will try and post tomorrowand will try and email picturesto people in the next 2 dayss.. thanks for reading,.
Mark
Yesterday i bought a burger in a packet... dosent sound to nice but hey i needed a burger, i got home opend the packed to find my self looking at a big bun,,, no meat. i looked again at the packet and it clearly says Hamburger... no mention that there is no ham.grrr as paul knows they have a tendancy to lie about whats in side, (summer palace, he bought a spegettie bolonase thing, it turned out to be a spegettie and brown sludge,,,. a bit like what you get after you eat it.)
((((also a big thank you to Paul, for sending me a package, and David (dad) for sending me some books))))
in my kindergarten i have a music cd. that i have to play each lesson and do the dance moves, greatfun for all the staff to watch a westoner prance around like a mad fool. either way there is a really scary song. on the TV there is a women in a rabbit outfit, and she is singing. (voice over is easy to reacognise as it finishes befor she dose,, in fact she is still silently singing when it cuts out,) and in this song, the corus (whcioh is sung by the women on the tv) take aunexpectely deep mans voice, it really puts me off the moves and makes me quite frightend.
Othere than those, i can only report i have the flu, and the heat is getting stifaling, even the walk to work (up 4 flights of stairs) and im shatterd and sweating.
Mylaptop.
I have totaly lostwindows now. i have installed a operating system called PUP on a USB stick, this works for music,dvds and allowes meto save what files i need. oncei figger out how to do it.
Kindergarten
i amgetting a bit more usedto it. i have another one of my oldclasses pop in today to say hi. that was nice. and the kids seem to miss me. although they have been given anothere english teacher who isnt white, and isnt from a native english country, but he is good at what he dose and he knows all the kids names. and can speak chinese perfectly, hopefully i will beable to getto his level at some point.
The space bar dose not work very well so as i can see there are some places where words are joind and the bad letterson the key bord havent registerd. still its betterthan nothing. i will try and post tomorrowand will try and email picturesto people in the next 2 dayss.. thanks for reading,.
Mark
Friday 13 March 2009
OK 10RMB
so i have now added 1 pound work of RMB. that will buy me about 8 hours ish... so where was i... O in case you see some "\\\" of them it is due to that button being where the back space button should be on thie key bord.
I have little money.. but liyangs mum has told us we must live on less and put the rest into a savings account for travel or buying a house or something.. we or more to the point ME going out and buying a dvd player work 400RMb did nothing but for her to tell liyang to tell me that i am diss-obediant and she should hit me........ o dear. i think what made matters worse was that when i got it home, it didnt work with the tv. as the tv is to old, so i said i would have to buy a tv as well. still..... what can you do..
Me and Liyang went to Century park. the main park. where we walked around enjoy the sun and then went out on a boad.. pedalo things.. seats 4 persons, very relaxing if not a good work out as liyang sort of... stopped after a few mins. i dont blame her it was shattering and i was sweating so much after a few mo\ins in the heat and the exertion, even on the boat othere boats would pass, turn around and accitently go passed us a gain with cameras at the ready, i noted 3 photos being tacken of me on proper cameras and a load more on mobil phones. some convostaions started betwean liyang and a few boats, i they assumed i was an american,. as soon as i heard that i put them right... i am english man! not american, then convosation would move to me directly and i would,after a few quick exchanges on my part, pedal faster as i didnt under stand much of what they said, liyang constanly puts it in a the chinese i understand so i can reply my self, good of her...
My current favouret work is GAMMA or WHY... eg GAMMA NI and point to tears on a child face, then i burst of machine gun fire back at me from the child and a yes from me and the child would mostly walk off happy. of a puzzled look appears n there faces i would quickly change it to WAIT A BIT, mosttly they want drink or mum or dad or food. however after one child took a crap on the floor right in front of me after following me for a few minuits i try and understand what they are saying, as but still miss most of it.
To be fair, i dont miss much about england, mostly my famely the people i have known,
Now to make you all envy my a little bit more.
postage. ( i understand they are going to part privvatise it in england) well over here i had a currioue\\iour come to my house and pick up a mobile phone and charger. then he put it in a sealed bag and it arrived in shanghai 3 days later. all this cost me 10RMB or one pound,
and again for the new people (hello) 11 Pints of beer cost 2.70 in the middle of this city but where i live it costs 1.90.. and it is good beer....
taxis start at 50p and at 2p increases it dosnt get to expensive to travel by taxi,
a ice cream costs 25p in century park and a 1 hour stint on a pedalo boat costs 2 quid
i do not get taxed,,, i think...
for 200 RMB or 20 pounds i have bought a whole load of electricity, that should keep us going for a month at least. or 3 months maby.
if you recylce... it is optional here. you get pad for it, and again the people come to your house count your empty beer bottles and jars and cans and plastic bags and pay you acordingly.
Rubbuish is collected every couple of hours
the nearest shop for food is 20-30 seconds from my door, there are 3 shops on campus, the nearest market is 40-50 seconds work from my front door and the nearest super market is 7mins walk from my door. however is there is no trafic it can me done in 6 as it normaly takes a while to cross the road.
me and the security man are the only males in the school. same as the last one. (staff wise) i work with 15 female tachers and teaching assistants.
for 70 pounds you can buy a touch screen,duel simcard, triband, nokia, camera and videa and radio and voice recorder incorporated, writing recognition for english and chinese, usb compatible with 2 batterys and all cables supplyed mobile phone in what ever colour you want. WAP, GPRS, QQ and stock enquiry all built in. no simcard or contract required
45p for a pack of good ciggys
cheap coke and 7up ie 25p for 600ml
chewing gum that comes in any flavour you could want.
i could go on and on but am getting bord of this subject.
WAW this is going to be a long post.....
Marks Wish list;
-English ficton book,
-a couple more books,
-and another book just to keep me entertained,
-a lion bar.
Marks home comfort list;
-apple smelling Lynx, its new.
-a can of fosters, the one with the widget in. (not needed i just miss english beer)
-sitting down with a knife and fork and enjoying a 100% english made meal.(impossible to bring that here)
-some snack foods
-being able to walk down the street without every one looking at you, add to that being able to walk down the street when there is no one on it.
-being able to have a meaning full convosation with some one.. (i must go and see some english teachers soon...(just texted mike asking if there were any plans this weekend)..)
i seem to have missed a few people off when i emailed off my post, so i will edit it (as i cannot upload any pictures and past it below for all the world to see.=
Well I have broken the computer I was given to use while at school, i only used it once.…. Opps.
Now i am sitting in a internet cafe that i found on the way back from work, 4th floor of an appartenly abandoned building,,,, dont ask how i found it, i cannot log on to chinaandmark from here but i can do my emails, i am not sure when i will be able to update chinaandmark. May be a while.
Here is somthing i prepared for the blog should i get online, i will email it to everyone i can remember, if anyone would like to take some time out and post it on chinaandmark i would be very thankful, i will give any one who asks the information from passwords and log-in names they require, just let me know..
ok here we go
... no pic but thought i would leave this in as you can grasp what is happening by this simple sencance..........This is the complete chaos that ensued after one third of my class walked to the toys at the side of the room…………. (yes my class of 3 pupils is a tad smaller than I am used to)
Currently assistants and teachers out number the pupils, and they cry when they see me. Making my lessons very very difficult. They are not used to weston monkeys.
.........deleted..........However, the shower doesn’t work,,, the hot turns its self off. And the toilet gets blocked every day,…
I have been back twice to visit my old kindergarten so far this week. It has almost reduced me to tears seeing my kids again, I have promised to go back next week at some point,
I am the only westerner here so the locals stare at me all time.... all the time. In my other house there has been westerners living for the past 3 years, not here. I am the first westoner this side of town,,, and im not surprised. Its not that great,
I have now read all three of the books I ended up bringing.
Eldest. The second of the series by Christopher Paolini.
Eragon, was the first, very good. The next is Inheritance, I am hoping sometime to have someone send it from the uk. Both books are highly recommended. Have found it hard to put it down, or go to sleep as my mind is thinking of dragons and magic…. AAA+++
The next book was The lost Throne, by Chris kuzneski
All in all a very good book, interesting read and a book that is hard to put down.
Last is the great book Sword Song, by Bernard Cornwell.
I have read a book in this series prior to reading this and enjoyed it immensely,, thank you mum. This book has not broken my great liking of this author, well worth reading. Again thank you mum.
I was thinking of buying a electic scooter but have now decided to just save the money and buy one when I reach my next town/ city at the end of this contract, my current feelings are that I will stay in china another years contact, or stay in Hebei if the right job arises, like that of my old kindergarten,
However this is still a bit premature to be thinking of the next one when I have only completed a month here. Now I have a letter box where parcels can be sent to. The address is
381, hongqi south street, C-zuo, guy un wen hua guang chang, talking time village, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, 050000
381, hongqi south street, C-zuo, guy un wen hua guang chang, talking time village, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, 050000
My throat has cleared up but i am still suffering from a bad headache, i have reduced my self to 1 para a day as my supplies are danger low.
So apart from me not enjoying the job as much as i did, the flat being worse than the last, my supplies running out, no english books to read, a tv that dosnt work and no internet connection, i am living quite well,
Liyang is forever making me feel better after my morning and evening classes, some of her food that she cooks has gone a bit more weston, (not much but a bit, similar to food in shanghai, that is inbetwean a chinese take out in england and the proper thing) (paul, it is like the east west cafe)
If there is any thing any one would like to see in pics or be told about, dont hesitate to ask. I will be only to happy to inform you of what you want to know.
well that was a long post.... i am gona play counter stike for a bit then head off home to enjoy a burger on route and a beer apon reaching my destination. bye bye all. write soon.
I have little money.. but liyangs mum has told us we must live on less and put the rest into a savings account for travel or buying a house or something.. we or more to the point ME going out and buying a dvd player work 400RMb did nothing but for her to tell liyang to tell me that i am diss-obediant and she should hit me........ o dear. i think what made matters worse was that when i got it home, it didnt work with the tv. as the tv is to old, so i said i would have to buy a tv as well. still..... what can you do..
Me and Liyang went to Century park. the main park. where we walked around enjoy the sun and then went out on a boad.. pedalo things.. seats 4 persons, very relaxing if not a good work out as liyang sort of... stopped after a few mins. i dont blame her it was shattering and i was sweating so much after a few mo\ins in the heat and the exertion, even on the boat othere boats would pass, turn around and accitently go passed us a gain with cameras at the ready, i noted 3 photos being tacken of me on proper cameras and a load more on mobil phones. some convostaions started betwean liyang and a few boats, i they assumed i was an american,. as soon as i heard that i put them right... i am english man! not american, then convosation would move to me directly and i would,after a few quick exchanges on my part, pedal faster as i didnt under stand much of what they said, liyang constanly puts it in a the chinese i understand so i can reply my self, good of her...
My current favouret work is GAMMA or WHY... eg GAMMA NI and point to tears on a child face, then i burst of machine gun fire back at me from the child and a yes from me and the child would mostly walk off happy. of a puzzled look appears n there faces i would quickly change it to WAIT A BIT, mosttly they want drink or mum or dad or food. however after one child took a crap on the floor right in front of me after following me for a few minuits i try and understand what they are saying, as but still miss most of it.
To be fair, i dont miss much about england, mostly my famely the people i have known,
Now to make you all envy my a little bit more.
postage. ( i understand they are going to part privvatise it in england) well over here i had a currioue\\iour come to my house and pick up a mobile phone and charger. then he put it in a sealed bag and it arrived in shanghai 3 days later. all this cost me 10RMB or one pound,
and again for the new people (hello) 11 Pints of beer cost 2.70 in the middle of this city but where i live it costs 1.90.. and it is good beer....
taxis start at 50p and at 2p increases it dosnt get to expensive to travel by taxi,
a ice cream costs 25p in century park and a 1 hour stint on a pedalo boat costs 2 quid
i do not get taxed,,, i think...
for 200 RMB or 20 pounds i have bought a whole load of electricity, that should keep us going for a month at least. or 3 months maby.
if you recylce... it is optional here. you get pad for it, and again the people come to your house count your empty beer bottles and jars and cans and plastic bags and pay you acordingly.
Rubbuish is collected every couple of hours
the nearest shop for food is 20-30 seconds from my door, there are 3 shops on campus, the nearest market is 40-50 seconds work from my front door and the nearest super market is 7mins walk from my door. however is there is no trafic it can me done in 6 as it normaly takes a while to cross the road.
me and the security man are the only males in the school. same as the last one. (staff wise) i work with 15 female tachers and teaching assistants.
for 70 pounds you can buy a touch screen,duel simcard, triband, nokia, camera and videa and radio and voice recorder incorporated, writing recognition for english and chinese, usb compatible with 2 batterys and all cables supplyed mobile phone in what ever colour you want. WAP, GPRS, QQ and stock enquiry all built in. no simcard or contract required
45p for a pack of good ciggys
cheap coke and 7up ie 25p for 600ml
chewing gum that comes in any flavour you could want.
i could go on and on but am getting bord of this subject.
WAW this is going to be a long post.....
Marks Wish list;
-English ficton book,
-a couple more books,
-and another book just to keep me entertained,
-a lion bar.
Marks home comfort list;
-apple smelling Lynx, its new.
-a can of fosters, the one with the widget in. (not needed i just miss english beer)
-sitting down with a knife and fork and enjoying a 100% english made meal.(impossible to bring that here)
-some snack foods
-being able to walk down the street without every one looking at you, add to that being able to walk down the street when there is no one on it.
-being able to have a meaning full convosation with some one.. (i must go and see some english teachers soon...(just texted mike asking if there were any plans this weekend)..)
i seem to have missed a few people off when i emailed off my post, so i will edit it (as i cannot upload any pictures and past it below for all the world to see.=
Well I have broken the computer I was given to use while at school, i only used it once.…. Opps.
Now i am sitting in a internet cafe that i found on the way back from work, 4th floor of an appartenly abandoned building,,,, dont ask how i found it, i cannot log on to chinaandmark from here but i can do my emails, i am not sure when i will be able to update chinaandmark. May be a while.
Here is somthing i prepared for the blog should i get online, i will email it to everyone i can remember, if anyone would like to take some time out and post it on chinaandmark i would be very thankful, i will give any one who asks the information from passwords and log-in names they require, just let me know..
ok here we go
... no pic but thought i would leave this in as you can grasp what is happening by this simple sencance..........This is the complete chaos that ensued after one third of my class walked to the toys at the side of the room…………. (yes my class of 3 pupils is a tad smaller than I am used to)
Currently assistants and teachers out number the pupils, and they cry when they see me. Making my lessons very very difficult. They are not used to weston monkeys.
.........deleted..........However, the shower doesn’t work,,, the hot turns its self off. And the toilet gets blocked every day,…
I have been back twice to visit my old kindergarten so far this week. It has almost reduced me to tears seeing my kids again, I have promised to go back next week at some point,
I am the only westerner here so the locals stare at me all time.... all the time. In my other house there has been westerners living for the past 3 years, not here. I am the first westoner this side of town,,, and im not surprised. Its not that great,
I have now read all three of the books I ended up bringing.
Eldest. The second of the series by Christopher Paolini.
Eragon, was the first, very good. The next is Inheritance, I am hoping sometime to have someone send it from the uk. Both books are highly recommended. Have found it hard to put it down, or go to sleep as my mind is thinking of dragons and magic…. AAA+++
The next book was The lost Throne, by Chris kuzneski
All in all a very good book, interesting read and a book that is hard to put down.
Last is the great book Sword Song, by Bernard Cornwell.
I have read a book in this series prior to reading this and enjoyed it immensely,, thank you mum. This book has not broken my great liking of this author, well worth reading. Again thank you mum.
I was thinking of buying a electic scooter but have now decided to just save the money and buy one when I reach my next town/ city at the end of this contract, my current feelings are that I will stay in china another years contact, or stay in Hebei if the right job arises, like that of my old kindergarten,
However this is still a bit premature to be thinking of the next one when I have only completed a month here. Now I have a letter box where parcels can be sent to. The address is
381, hongqi south street, C-zuo, guy un wen hua guang chang, talking time village, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, 050000
381, hongqi south street, C-zuo, guy un wen hua guang chang, talking time village, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, 050000
My throat has cleared up but i am still suffering from a bad headache, i have reduced my self to 1 para a day as my supplies are danger low.
So apart from me not enjoying the job as much as i did, the flat being worse than the last, my supplies running out, no english books to read, a tv that dosnt work and no internet connection, i am living quite well,
Liyang is forever making me feel better after my morning and evening classes, some of her food that she cooks has gone a bit more weston, (not much but a bit, similar to food in shanghai, that is inbetwean a chinese take out in england and the proper thing) (paul, it is like the east west cafe)
If there is any thing any one would like to see in pics or be told about, dont hesitate to ask. I will be only to happy to inform you of what you want to know.
well that was a long post.... i am gona play counter stike for a bit then head off home to enjoy a burger on route and a beer apon reaching my destination. bye bye all. write soon.
Agh
well i still havent managed to get the internet working corectly, i am now in a internet cafe using a proxy server that is located some wherein the world to be able to log in and write this message.
I have settled in with the teachers and am starting to learn my students names and dissabilities. for example in 1 class (kindergarten 2) i have 6 students. Andy is in his home town so is absent, Angel and Red although disruptive can learn. John, who dose not participate in any lessons. Mathew, who has a servier learning dificulty, cannot speak or comprehend what is going on. and another how i dont know his name which is deaf and cannot speak. and that is just one class.
my appartment now has a hot shower, thank god.... and we are setteling in very nicly now. LiYang is earning what i like and dont like and can pritty much guess my reaction to differnt foods, befor (after just 3 days) i felt like a vegatible, after eating nothing but. so i demanded meat. now i have some form of meat iv ever meal. which is a god send.
i have been given my bank card and 3325 RMB for the month of Feb 10th till 28. next month i will get the full 4500, this is a good thing. i will get more money on my card and log on as i have jusdt had the 1 min warning. speak in a few minuites.
I have settled in with the teachers and am starting to learn my students names and dissabilities. for example in 1 class (kindergarten 2) i have 6 students. Andy is in his home town so is absent, Angel and Red although disruptive can learn. John, who dose not participate in any lessons. Mathew, who has a servier learning dificulty, cannot speak or comprehend what is going on. and another how i dont know his name which is deaf and cannot speak. and that is just one class.
my appartment now has a hot shower, thank god.... and we are setteling in very nicly now. LiYang is earning what i like and dont like and can pritty much guess my reaction to differnt foods, befor (after just 3 days) i felt like a vegatible, after eating nothing but. so i demanded meat. now i have some form of meat iv ever meal. which is a god send.
i have been given my bank card and 3325 RMB for the month of Feb 10th till 28. next month i will get the full 4500, this is a good thing. i will get more money on my card and log on as i have jusdt had the 1 min warning. speak in a few minuites.
Agh
well i still havent managed to get the internet working corectly, i am now in a internet cafe using a proxy server that is located some wherein the world to be able to log in and write this message.
I have settled in with the teachers and am starting to learn my students names and dissabilities. for example in 1 class (kindergarten 2) i have 6 students. Andy is in his home town so is absent, Angel and Red although disruptive can learn. John, who dose not participate in any lessons. Mathew, who has a servier learning dificulty, cannot speak or comprehend what is going on. and another how i dont know his name which is deaf and cannot speak. and that is just one class.
my appartment now has a hot shower, thank god.... and we are setteling in very nicly now. LiYang is earning what i like and dont like and can pritty much guess my reaction to differnt foods, befor (after just 3 days) i felt like a vegatible, after eating nothing but. so i demanded meat. now i have some form of meat iv ever meal. which is a god send.
i have been given my bank card and 3325 RMB for the month of Feb 10th till 28. next month i will get the full 4500, this is a good thing. i will get more money on my card and log on as i have jusdt had the 1 min warning. speak in a few minuites.
I have settled in with the teachers and am starting to learn my students names and dissabilities. for example in 1 class (kindergarten 2) i have 6 students. Andy is in his home town so is absent, Angel and Red although disruptive can learn. John, who dose not participate in any lessons. Mathew, who has a servier learning dificulty, cannot speak or comprehend what is going on. and another how i dont know his name which is deaf and cannot speak. and that is just one class.
my appartment now has a hot shower, thank god.... and we are setteling in very nicly now. LiYang is earning what i like and dont like and can pritty much guess my reaction to differnt foods, befor (after just 3 days) i felt like a vegatible, after eating nothing but. so i demanded meat. now i have some form of meat iv ever meal. which is a god send.
i have been given my bank card and 3325 RMB for the month of Feb 10th till 28. next month i will get the full 4500, this is a good thing. i will get more money on my card and log on as i have jusdt had the 1 min warning. speak in a few minuites.
Tuesday 3 March 2009
Sorry
sorry i have not posted for a few days, i have not had the internet and there is no cafe near me, tomorrow i will update with photos. i have been given a computer at the new kindergarten, i know it is bugged so i will have to watch what i say, sorry i cant write more but i am already late for my next lesson, i just had to let you all know i am alive and well and just been without computer access.
speak tomorrow.
speak tomorrow.
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