It rained again last night, making today the coldest day so far, which is a good thing really, since the weather can only get hotter.

Apartment Update: we got a cleaning lady to clean the kitchen and utilities area, though the cockroaches are STILL there (naturally! urgh). Beijing's extremely dusty, my room needs to be mopped every two days, since I leave my window open. Beijing is also terribly dry. My lips are a little chapped and thank god, I brought my heavy duty Vaseline.

And now that a week is almost over, L-day looms closer and closer. LAUNDRY!! which is really unfortunate since our washing machine floods the living room when we use it...anyway, moving on.

A typical day in Beijing:

745am: Wake up.
830am: Out of the apt
by 9am: in class

9-12pm: Lessons. Methodology, Phonology, Grammar.. etc

12-1pm: Lunch

1-2pm: Teaching Practice (TP) Preperations

2-4pm: We take turns to teach 40-60min lessons to students our instructor randomly grabs from the streets

4+ onwards: FREE & EASY, unless we have TP the next day, but I usually do my lesson plans in the evening when it's nice and quiet.

So far, I've seen Tiananmen Sq at night. I'll be heading down to the Forbidden Palace tomorrow!!! One of our classmates, a local Chinese kindly offered to bring us around, which is excellent.

I'm trying to hook up with the Panda Program organisers (those who've heard me talk about the Panda would know), because they have a Save the Great Wall of China prog too, since I'm free on weekends.

Well, that's all for now. A quick wrap up of the past week. Will try to blog more regularly!! Love you all at home.

Darlings! I'm alive!! Unfortunately, internet connection isn't all that conveniently available. Will write more when I've the time. Just checking in to let everybody know I'm fine and well, and alive and living in a cockroach-infested apartment!!!

*muaks muaks*