I am from New Zealand and am teaching English in China. Married to Mei, from Anshan, and very happy here.
Its nice and warm this morning, nearly perspiring, temp is around 10 or 11c and yesterday was so cold with the wind. Out early this morning to buy bathroom fittings and try another kitchen place to compare prices. Afternoon, classes. Mei is back at the tile suppliers discussing things because they sent some wrong tiles, so Mei will be getting stuck in to them, I feel sorry for them.
One of my schools, a kindergarten have a Monday morning flag raising and parade so have a look. Ages are from 2 to about 7
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Progress is being made in the new apartment. I had our balcony filled in so we had to replace the roofing. It looked very dangerous to me, I hate heights and this was on a narrow roof on the 11th floor. It gave me the willies just thinking about it, but I did manage to brave up and take picture or two.
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Snow is melting but we are xpexprecting rain today, may inckude some more snow. House fitout is going well, Mei selected a kitchen last night, German design and made, it does look nice.
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Started early with builders and plumbers, very cold, -12c with a strong wind, not nice. Afternoon is now nice and more snow and ice melting. Full afternoon with classes now
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Have had some nice sunny weather , the snow and ice are melting and work has started in our new apartment, so it makes us happy.
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Today is known as small new year, which is a week before Big New Year or Spring Festival. Yesterday and today was spent doing a spring clean, perhaps that is where the words originated, it is a tradition thousands of years old. so I was cleaning windows and vacuuming and dusting etc. We also visited the graves of Mei’s father and mother, another tradition which included burning lots of paper money.
It is relatively warm today, around 4 or 5c which is a lot warmer then –23c so it is quite pleasant.
We have a ‘wind down week’ next week as every one is in holiday mood, we go to Shenyang on Tuesday for a concert with all the other schools, so that's a bit of fun, then Mei’s son arrives from Beijing on Thursday.
The fireworks have started already and will happen for the next couple of weeks or more, day and night.
Went walking on the lake before and it is always a strange sensation wandering around on the ice and looking at the water underneath. The ice seemed to be about a foot thick so it is pretty safe, just feels eerie.
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Just trying to put it all together and have ideas but it is slow. I will keep on working at it. I am a bit old but am enjoying it and am not really a geek. I am using Synthasite which seems easy enough to follow and am still building.
Have a look if you like and even suggest an improvement - click here
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The children this morning were so happy to see me, they just love me
to bits. They arrive at school in the morning all wrapped up but I can
see their smile and it makes me feel very warm too.
-- Best wishes from John in Anshan
Check my Blogs
http://jcinanshan.synthasite.com/
http://jcininanshan.blogspot.com/
http://johnandmei.spaces.live.com/
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