Wow, long time since ive been on here!

So many things have occurred- The Olympics have been and gone, Shaun has gotten older and life here in China is good. Teaching at Baidawei, with my classes, is getting along fine too.

We had our Olympic Intensive, which is just a lot more hours teaching with an Olympic flavour to it for a month. For two weeks we would teach a bunch of children, then a performance for their parents on Day 10 (no classes on sat/sun- regular classes instead), then a new batch of children for the other two weeks. Theres been a  few adjustments to my teaching schedule as in time of classes,  but im still on full hours and thats what counts! Its been noticeable in classes that children are really learning which make me happy, shows im doing it right!

Shaun has grown rapidly- he is now one year two months old and mobile! Yes, he can walk unaided and run a little too. Sometimes he falls but he is getting better at steadying himself. Over the next few months he will probably start speaking too, apart from Dada and mama he can say at the moment. Maybe having English, Tagalog and Chinese voices around him might be a bit too much, but could stand him in good stead for the future!

Ive seen pictures of family back home and their children and its nice and also a little sad to see everyone growing up so much- im missing a lot of things back home but thats the way it is. Hopefully the future can see me returning for a while to visit family.