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My last day teaching!!

Well Friday was more or less my last day teaching and it was so so sad -I cried! Some of my Grade 1's were crying and shouting don’t leave Lauren, it was terrible, my favourite student wr...

Little Trouble in Big China

I touched down in Chendu for which the literal English translation is perfect metropolis. ‘Perfect’ though is obviously from a Chinese point of view. It is basically the same as any Chinese cit...

Gawking at Everest

Ever seen the top of the tallest mountain in the world? Well neither have we but we got a good view of the side today. Today we flew to Tibet and the biggest highlight of this flight was flying p...

Snooping around the Dalai Lamas house

Thanks to the incredibly strict regulations of the Chinese government, the only way we could visit Tibet was by a guided tour. Today was day 1 of the 3 day tour and we would get to see two major at...

Please, no more temples!

There are only two reasons to come to Tibet: to trek and to see all the temples and monasteries. If you've read our previous blogs you should know that trekking is not our forte and so we were ...