Well, I’ve finally updated this blog and I can tell you it probably wasn’t worth the wait. My time has been consumed by teaching, learning Chinese and designing the school’s new website. Check it out at www.teachers4china.com I’m quite proud of it (though I’m sure the code is amateurish) but it has meant that this blog has been neglected. (15 Jan 09 – www.teachers4china.com has since been disbanded!)

I have spent the evening marking my student’s homework. I always appreciated the teachers take marked my homework promptly and gave me good feedback so I try to do the same for my students. Sitting on the other side of the desk has given me a greater appreciation of how utterly boring this is. Actually, I don’t sit behind a desk during my lessons because I normally stand. All my students scored As, so I must be doing something right as a teacher.

When you don’t have much money or time and need something to eat then street food is perfect. This is fried egg with some vegetables and processed meat wrapped in some thin pita-like bread. The outdoor cooks work for 12 hours or longer a day in any weather. I guess the profit margins aren’t great when it costs 17p. The food is exposed to all the air pollution in Tianjin and it could be more hygienic. But I haven’t been food-poisoned yet – bonus!

It’s quarter past midnight and I have wasted a whole evening to set this blog up. It cost just over ten pounds sterling (£10.04 to be exact). I expect to update this blog when I have some free time next year.