Long Time No Blog

Nothing much interesting happening around here these days. Business as usual. Teaching, learning Chinese, going out for the odd beer!

Spring time has finally arrived in Dalian and it’s now quite pleasant outside. Can get quite windy some times but today has been quite nice!

I think some of the classes are warming up a bit. Got good discussion out of them today on the topic of dreams. A lot of the students do know the answers to questions but are too shy/lacking in confidence with English or just lazy to answer! I think we need to knock the laziness on the head cos it is infectious! I haven’t had much discipline problems yet although I did have to put one or 2 smart arses in their places today!

May holiday is coming up. This is a forced holiday, so the whole country will be on holidays for the first week of May. Good deals will be hard to come by but I don’t fancy sticking around here for it. Need to sort something out sharpish!

Since spring is here, I’ll have to get out and see some of Dalian’s sights and scenic spots that I haven’t seen yet. Binhai Road is supposed to be nice. I wouldn’t mind cycling it but I heard it’s only one lane each side and it’s a coastal scenic road. Probably not that safe for cyclists!

I showed the film The Commitments to a Chinese friend recently. I don’t think much was understood, especially with every second word being fuck, bollocks, shit, wanker, ride, … I think the humour sort of got lost there!