Last Days Of Summer Camp School

Well we had our difficulties at summer camp issues with the the senior teacher who name we dont know but we called her froggy for the whole time, but we sorted things out after a few days and things with teaching became better , we started doing our own lessons and as a teaching group came up with themes for the day one day was music, u.k holidays , food , sport, singing the children loved it . it was a great chance to teach on my own and made me more confident in my own teaching skills as you could see the children confidence and speaking ability improve i was really proud. on the last day we had to put on a show for the school to show case what they had learnt we performed songs they new , a play little red riding hood which i directed we sang s club 7 reach . it was amazing . then we were showered in gifts from the kids .

summer camp may have been the hardest thing i have done with teaching as we were thrown in the deep end but i feel much better for it now and i am extremely excited to teach my new students and hope i help build their confidence and ability to speak in english. i couldnt have done summer camp without the group of teachers and james flatmate gary ( who taught at a different school) , luckily sophie, jen, dave and james are at the same school so i didnt have to say goodbye  but had to leave marty and lois and gary which was extremely upsetting but i am planning to have a little cheeky visit sometime as  lois and marty are both in the same city and we are all hopefully going to see panda's in the wild together as its far for all of us so we will arrange a date and have a mini reunion =D

Me at the front of school (summer camp school)

The School

teaching took it out of me sometimes so one day i had a little nap =)

marty's birthday night very merry off 30p beer's and 35p mystery spirit which we have named doris juice not sure what it is but it gets you smashed =D

me teaching the children

sometimes the food wasnt very nice at our school its a shame we had to have lunch and dinner there the gave us alot of the same ood over and over again everything tasted the same

me and sophie with our teaching assistant scoffield , who is an absolute legend was always very helpful and translated when we needed it and was extremely interested in our culture i miss him alot 

me ande sophie with some of our students from class 2



me and our favourite drink 35p alcohol in a bag (doris juice)

birthday card we made for marty

got a little sun burnt opps

as a present we got some cooked chicken feet and put them in marty's mouth was funnnnnnny

turned out marty like the chickens foot ewwww

our first meal out , little bit of disaster as we had no idea what we were ordering we got some dodgy stuff which we thought was whale blubber might be egg not sure snails and 1 ok dish which was chicken which was pretty funny we learnt to next time take the pharse book out

first beer i drank =)



drinking chinese tea

the boys learning skipping on our cultural day

us practicing reach for the final show for the children

A handle of the kids performing little red riding hood , which i helped them peform all the children learnt their lines and did an excellent performance i was so proud

me and gay dave on our last night out

the Grreeeeat Wall

The next day we went to the great wall of china i was super excited for this experience as its one of the main attractions of china unfortunately i was hung over due to celebrating marty's birthday the night before i was sick twice in the morning so i wasnt feeling 100% also the weather wasn't very good , very cloudy which turned out to be a blessing as well got very hot and sweaty walking up to the wall which wasn't the best combination with a hangover. it was so weird being on the wall wasnt what i expected i will be going back at some point to get better pictures of the views but for now it was incredible . enjoy the pics =D

someone had to do it so i got my bum out on the great wall =) (sorry mum ) , but now i can say i moonied on the great wall of china how cool is that =D i wonder how many people can say that :p cheeky cheeky

me and sophie were tired so we had a little sleep on each other it was so comfy lovely little nap zzzzzzzz

everyone always wants there picture with us this group of people were incredibly excited and asked if they could hold gary , we had hands all over us which wasnt the best as i was till a bit damp for the sweaty walk up 

me and lois by a tree with money in the trunk just before we reached the wall v.v.v.v sweaty

finally on the wall yaaayy

just a little excited to be on the wall =)

admiring the cloudy view from above 

the sign before we got on the toboggan to go down the wall only me and james were brave or stupid enough to use this method 

but it ended up being the best method it was so fun i was laughing and screaming all the way down you had a control lever of the speed which was comforting next time when i go i will be a bit more risky and go faster =)

the map of the great wall ( well the part of the wall we were at )

And pose on the great wall

the ticket =)

The gang =) back row : dave , not sure what the nexts guys name , me , john  next row , gary (yellow t shirt ) lois lauren sophie jen and james =D

tiananmen square and the forbidden city

we were given friday and saturday off from school in beijing with trips organised by TEIC we were hoping this meant a lie  in unfortunately we were wrong up as we had to be up at half 6 =(. On the first day we visited the national museum, tiananmen square and the forbidden city. it was a great day very hot and alot of walking but it was great to experience the culture . also this day was marty's birthday who was one of my follower teachers at my school so we decided to celebrate =). pics of that night will follow up =D enjoy



in the national museum =)



The gang =)

me with a cute child

cool kids on the bus with our caps we were given incase we got lost so fit dont you think =)

me and jen , me looking a little sun burnt opps

me and lois with the cute kid who just started to cry but before that was having a fab time i promise =)

in the forbidden city happy =)

the crew making our way to tiananmen square

all the girls bought jade budda necklaces , now friendship necklaces, love the girls so much =D

early morning chinese pose

drinking chinese tea was lovely just before our lovely lunch =)

me lios and gary playing the echo game in the forbidden city in a large vessel

a special thanks to sam for helping me load these pics , just wanna add that i am having an amazing time but please keep in touch via facebook or skype i wanna know whats going on at home remember i am 7 hours ahead so best time for skype is midday for you which is 6 7 for me , miss you all so much xxxxxxx