Time Flies

It’s week 15 already in the semester. Wow, it doesn’t seem like I’ve been teaching for 15 weeks! So, just 3 and a half weeks left. I’ll be giving hem exams next week. Should be fun. Or monotonous as the case may be.

I have an idea of what I’ll be doing at the start of my winter holidays anyway. I am intending to go to Taiwan and Korea. Spending Christmas in Taiwan and heading to Korea after that. In Feb, I hope to head to Hong Kong to see another friend. That leaves around 5 and a half weeks of space that I need to fill, smack bang in the middle of which is Spring Festival (Chinese New Year). I’ll have to find somewhere that ain’t Dalian to spend that time, cos it’s difficult to travel around then.

I’ve been coerced into singing again tonight at English Corner. Well, to be honest, I like singing and playing the guitar, so it’s no big deal. Whether they like listening to me is another question! I sang a couple of sons for the postgrads last Saturday morning. They got everything from the Dubliners to Oasis!

Oh, I got steak at the weekend. Pretty cheap here compared to back home. You can get a decent sized steak for €0.70! Got some chips and tomato ketchup as well. Had a right old feed! Next day I made myself a lovely steak sandwich, pictured below.

Sometimes eating Chinese food every day gets boring and you want something that you can sink yer teeth into!! I got some ham the other day so had a nice “hang sangwidge” along with a cup of Barry’s Tea for my lunch. By the way, I’m running out of Barry’s Tea. Could someone inform the Irish government and have some shipped over here right away?