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January 18, 2005

More Blending

The hair looks worse in daylight and without beer intake. The boys are currently at the Chinese "professional" hair dresser. hahahahahha They just walked in the door. There is now one very tall tiger aka Liam and one very small...

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Blending In

Can't beat 'em! Join 'em! That's what Liam and Trev think. 2 nights ago we were walking past the local supermarket when Trev decided he wanted a facial. Right next to all the chick make up stuff were hair dye...

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January 14, 2005

Ah Ting and Bo Bo

Last Saturday night we went to Ah Ting and Bo Bo's wedding reception. They were married on Dec 27 but as it was a work day for us in Zhaoqing and their families live in the small town of Luo...

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December 27, 2004

Christmas

Well Christmas has come and gone, and I must say we had a pretty good time. For the past month the Kindy have been preparing for the annual Christmas Eve concert. It's quite funny, they use it as the schools...

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December 05, 2004

Zhen Shan

Yesterday Trev and I ventured out to Si Hui, a small place about an hour from Zhaoqing. It was good getting away together. We noticed a lot more of the countryside than we normally do in a bigger crowd, and...

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November 22, 2004

Qingxin

We are making a last ditch effort to get out and see as much as we can before we leave China. I went to a travel agent today to enquire about flights home and picked up a few brochures. I...

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November 20, 2004

Longshan

This weekend we went out to Xinxing county and in particular Longshan town. One of Jo's kindy students father is the mayor of Xinxing so it was another rort of tax payers money. 12 Kindy teachers and Trev and Jo...

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November 08, 2004

Chinese Medicine

Trev's little fall in the maze turned out to be a little more serious than I gave him credit for. He couldn't walk and a trip to the doctor was in order. Doris took him outside the school to the...

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November 07, 2004

Gao Yao Ecology Park

Lyn invited me out to an Ecology Park in Gao Yao to have a break after a terrible week. We caught the bus out there (2 hours away) complete with chooks and way too many people. But we arrived at...

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October 31, 2004

Dinghu

For Mum and Brian's last day in Zhaoqing we took them out to Dinghu Mountain. It's a nice place to wander around and it feels like you have made an effort to go somewhere. Lyn owns a home in Dinghu...

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October 29, 2004

Pabst Beer Factory

As I said Mum and Brian visited us in Zhaoqing. One night we took them to the Mongolian Bar for a meal. It's a really nice outdoor restaurant with great views over the lake and city. Night time is really...

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October 25, 2004

Bett and BB

My Mum is often one to talk a good story leaving you wondering if it will ever happen. When I left for China she said she be up to visit at some stage and this was one story I thought...

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October 19, 2004

China Post

F*@#ing China is all I can say. I've had a hell of a day, but to top it off I just found my mail returned to me. Last week I went to the post office to send off my tax...

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October 14, 2004

Spring Carnival

As I read the Herald Sun online most days I realise I am missing home a lot now. The footy final has come around now twice, and I see Gai Waterhouse in the news with her daughter sporting the latest...

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October 11, 2004

Ding Hu Mountain

I met a girl in Beijing in the Summer holidays called Irina, well she has been travelling through Mongolia and has finally made her way to the south of China and popped in to pay us a visit. I took...

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October 07, 2004

Getting Fired

We returned to school after a week away to find out a heap of Chinese teachers had been fired. Most devastating of all of these was that Zhong Guo Mama's husband had been giving the sack. Reason being - his...

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October 01, 2004

National Day

China celebrates it's National Day on the 1st of October. This is to celebrate the coming of Chairman Mao's regime the People's Republic of China. Or as I like to call it the beginning of the demise of China. What...

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September 28, 2004

Mid Autumn Festival

Mid Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. It is said that the moon is at it's biggest and brightest at this time of year. The Chinese have a family celebration on this day where...

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September 24, 2004

Kindy

While the first week was spent on tender hooks hoping no one would cry, it seems I am no longer the big foreign monster but the big friendly foreigner. My classes often end in hugs and if they were any...

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September 22, 2004

Train Tickets

The National Holiday is fast approaching and today we could finally buy our train ticket there. Train tickets are not available for purchase in advance in China, so while we have a train ticket there - who knows if we'll...

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China Mum

Zhong Guo Mama is a really funny lady. She is so animated which makes speaking to her an absolute joy. Tonight Trev, Liam and I were down in the local village "San Mao" having a bite to eat when we...

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September 17, 2004

The City

Zhaoqing is about 2 hours west of Guangzhou (the captial of Guangdong) and will be our home for the next 5 months. It's a lot bigger than Qingtian in size and population. With this there are also a lot more...

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How cute are they

We live at the school amongst the other Chinese teachers. Our accomodation is small and initially was substandard. We have since had mod cons connected and bought new things like linen as all the bedding was mouldy. The room has...

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September 09, 2004

Liam's Mouth

We've been in Zhaoqing now for almost 3 weeks. Liam has been here around 2 weeks and we've became mates. But every photo I snap has his whopping great mouth wide open. Here's hoping in the next 5 months we...

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JJ Disco

We have been to this disco twice in less than a week. I must say I'm not normally a fan of places like this but with Liam (the loud larrikin Brit, who possible should be an Aussie sailor) the place...

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September 07, 2004

Beer Snacks

In Qingtian a favourite snack when sipping on a coldie was duck tongue. In Zhaoqing we seem to be a bit more refined we are eating pickled garlic. It's fantastic and let's just say it keeps away the vampires. I...

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September 01, 2004

Our New BBQ

I guess to keep Trev and I happy it doesn't take a lot. Cold beer and a BBQ will normally do the trick. In one of the bigger department stores we found a small kettle BBQ. Much like a...

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Purple Rattler

Our stint here will only be 5 months so I didn’t want to go out and buy a new bike, for three reasons new bikes generally either fall apart, get knicked and what would I do with it in 5...

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Home Delivery Beer

Did I say we had settled in to Zhaoqing? We have more than settled in – we have the power. We know the phone number for home delivery beer. This service is not open to all, just us – who...

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First Impressions

Well we’ve been in Zhaoqing for almost 2 weeks now and as some of you already know we (to put this mildly) thought f*#k what have we done again. First impressions of the school were not good. Since then we...

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