Here at last!!!

Ah, another week gone by, another week of smog in my lungs.

So im settled into teaching, well settling into teaching i should say. I have my hiccups still but the intial nerves are over and i do ok now. I've been doing some hour classes in the ecvenings and on weekends, a little harder but not so bad.

My schools good, they're all good people here and very helpful. I think i mentioned in an earlier posting that i go around to classes and do a short lesson,. well that is good let me tell you. I always have a chinese teacher in the room to control the kids if they get out of hand, which is not that ofter but it happens. Once you start losing control the others smell fear (as dave put it so well) and feed upon the carcass of your so well planned lesson.

Its so windy now, the cold is less intense but the wind chill is painful, creeps in through every gap and chills you. I wanna fly a kite.

Had a bit of a chance to look around my area, found some hhhuuuggge shops, underground markets that my friend Cherylynne in Guanzhou told me about that got for at least a mile, all underground divided into hundreds of little stores with everything you can imagine.

Im still broke, get my paycheck on the 28th which will grand. Not all roses though, i still have some things to pay before i can go crazy. One thing i do plan to buy is a playstation 2, then ammount of games here is absurd, all around 3 quai each, so about 50c.

I mentioned about the roads in my last one. They are crazy here, in australia there would be stabbing every few seconds if people drove like they do here but in china everyone is cool with it and road rage is a rare thing. Got a mushroom to schol today, its a motorbike with a box built around it pretty much, you can see the bitumen through the rust holes in the floor.

Anyone with any photos i would like, i would be so thankful if you could send them to me. Well i have to go, eat some bout szu for lunch. MMM dumplings. I'm learning chinese, well a little, i knw how to count and haggle, say thankyou, please, and all the the ones like goodbye etc.

Love.

P.s my lady on the stairs is gone!!! i hope shes ok.

MY postal address is

Aitong school
15 Xiang Qing Lu
Xiang fang District
Haerbin, Heilng Jian, China

Put my name on the envelope somewhere because thats my school address. But dont send me anything yet, i will ask mum to post me a trial letter to see if the chinese postman are good.