I got off the plane this morning, in shorts and a t shirt, at 6:30 AM to a temperature of minus 1 degrees! Goose bumps do not go well with a sun tan. It’s freezing! So after a rest and a change of clothes it was off to see one of the new schools. It…

EDIT:  The Youtube video below works now! It’s your Sunday day off in China, so what do you do? You go to the Great Wall! I always thought it would be way out in the middle of nowhere, but it’s right next to Beijing. You just pop on the highway for less than an hour…

Yes it’s Saturday, and yes we have teacher training and yes the kids are in school as well. Working hard seems to be second nature here. Genki English This morning was supposed to be simply getting the teachers to teach another Genki English lesson each. But word seemed to have got out because we had…

Regular readers will know that day 2 is always the hardest in any training. Day 1 is always “Wow, this is amazing”. Day 2 is “Wooo, we’ll never be able to do this”. Luckily day 3 is usually “Wow, we can do this!”. This morning started off well enough with going through the phonics lesson…

I have to be a little careful how I blog about this trip for various reasons. Let’s just say that we’re not working with the rich posh schools nor the government schools. The project here is to help children who really are poor get an excellent education, which can sometimes by a complicated business! Anyway…