I arrived in China last night only to be told that it would be 2 degrese!! It was pretty lonely and odd while we stood at the airport in a Aussie group around all these chinese men offering us a taxi for 30 mins before the driver arrived to take us and the smog is so thick it almost knocks you out!(if the cars dont first!!).
We finally got to the school after an awkward convo where we were all trying to understand the driver!! We were told to announce ourselves! and i quickly met my family.
I forgot the nemes of the parents but the girl is Selina.
The father is hilarious. He wants to learn english so he picks up everything and makes me say it. He also keeps giving me food. The mother speaks no english except 'sit down' and is always giving me water and making me sit down.
Selina is very friendly, she speaks only english to me and the parents will clap if i say something in chinese!
I am looking foward to tomorrow where i can speak chinese all day and learn about the school!
Love you and miss you all!
Sarah
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Hi scarey, Great to hear you made it safely and that your fitting in so well with your new family. Mum cried all the way home from the airport and now just can't stop jumping around punching the sky now that you have gone, so I can't workout whether she is sad or happy that you are over there!! Perkins misses you though, as do I ( the hug was so nice!!). Mum getting grumpy as I write this, so have to go ..... ouch ... not the sholder ,,, she is so cruel!! Luv ya
Hi Sarah!
Glad to hear you touched down ok! 2 degrees! Ouch! Good to know your host family is nice - even if the english is a little spare. And being clapped sounds fun - encouraging! Have fun at school, and hope the Chinese comes easily. Post again soon... We miss you, love Sim1
hi darling, yes i forgot to tell you about the smog, the noise and the traffic. Tricky isnt it that they drive on the other side of the road... but hey thats china. I will probably be in HK in mid Dec so i wont be too far away from you.
have a great time and tell be all and i expect you to teach your host family the words of "see the bombers fly up up...
love you darling and i am very proud of you
hey sarah!
sounds like fun over there! Hope school is going well and you're picking up lots of random chinese words! Over here it's getting a bit scary and stressed as we start packing and such, but all should be fine. I've just made my blog and am about to email the link to everyone!
Cya later,
emma.
Cold hey... do you have enough clothes?
Well who would have thought you have been to the GWofC. were there lots of people there and did it take long to get there
How are you coping with the food and chop sticks... have you had snake yet?
Thinking about you all the time. Love you
Hey, sorry, I seem to be unable to log in now so I will just post here and hope you all read it!! it is so awesome here! We went to the great wall where we had snow and it was -15!! and so friecken cold!! but so beautiful. We have been to school and we do martial arts!! we are discovering so many different foods, it is great because i love them all. I am not cold during the days, tomorrow will be -7 so i will stay inside, and it will snow on wednesday!!Everywhere we go we are treatred like celebrities, strangers come and take photos of us randomly - it is so cool! I miss everyone so much, but i am having a wonderful time!Miss you and love you all!!! (and i am fuine dad)
Hi Sarah
We've sent you emails but it seems you can't access those either. Sounds like you're having an awesome time - we're having fun too, tho the temps are a bit opposite to yours!!! Seen lots of great beaches & cute little towns, but the houses are sooooo expensive.
Hi Scarey. Been great travelling down the coast. Sooo hot!! Was in Byron Bay yesterday with all the schoolies ... they all seemed so well behaved ... but then we wern't there at night!! Mum wants to move up here straight away... how would you like to complete your VCE by correspondance from the beautiful warm, white sand beaches of Northen NSW???? (Just joking!!) Mum starting to get a suntan .. bit like a Zebra though!!
Love MooMoo and fatshit!!
Well, its the end of your 1st week in CN, and you have done so much already. what are your plans for the comming week?
We are meant to be having a bbq here today but its wet in Sydney and a bit "thundery" so we will have to see what happens.
So you have been enjoying the food, what is your favourite so far.
Love you darling .. Daadybones
hey again! we are in france now so check out our blogs to see what we are up to! its no where near as cold here, in fact its quite mild which is nice but i want to use my coat! hope the chinese is coming along nicely, my french is sill a bit wobly and sparse!
hope you are well!
emma
Hey, today was -7 and it was beautiful!! the sky was so blue and fresh (no smog)
Today we went shopping with David and his homestay and her boyfriend. We bought soooo many things!! and it was so fun to haggle.
Tomorrow we will go for another hotpot dinner with the Australian students (my family had hotpot tonight) - it should be good!! - i dont think it will be as cold tomorrow :)
on tuesday we will go to the forbidden city and tiananmen square :) I cant wait - but it is meant to snow so it may be quite miserable.
I have had all of the food here - everything that comes before me i have tried and i have liked most of it - they serve dessert and main course at the same time so I have beef with pumpkin covered in toffee (it is soo delicious)the best thing by far is Tanghulu which are small crab apples covered in toffee on a stick, yum!
I am soo envious of the heat!! grr i want the sun :) but the house is very warm so it is ok. Theya re giving me banlangen everyday so i dont get sick (it is like some herbal hot drink that literally tastes like crap!!) but meh. and every toilet in this bloody country is a squatting one with no paper so i have to take paper everywhere!!
My chinese listening is getting awesome and the WUSHU (martial arts) teacher only speaks to me because he thinks I am better than the others (how wrong he is!) my speaking is coming along but we are really doing the english thing here - it is really hard - but we do make a strong point at practising chinese. (tai gui le)
I love it here - i really take the time to appreciate the small things - david - we are coming here one day - you would love it!!
Mum - remeber that cloudy days dont stop the rays (and i haven't gotten your emails sorry try another address i_am_here_woot@yahoo.com.au ; outback_jillaroo_1@hotmail.com ) lol
Miss you and love you all ,
再见 xo
ooh forgot to mention that i went ice skating today!!!!!!!!!
So fun and sooo painfun!! only fell twice in 1 hour but still !! lol - i would reccomend it!!
hi darling ... sounds great. Who would have thought that you would eat all that different food. All my colleagues in China are asking how you are going. THey are very excited for you.
I bet you love the toilets... that explains why aust. toilets always have wet floors... they swat on the seat!!!!!
I was in Melb today back tonight very hot 33 and a hot nth wind... in CN its a cold nth wind.
What have you brought so far and what food to you recommend i eat in Hong Kong next week?.
Keep having fun and i love you
Hi Darling, whats been happening? Sydney has been quite humid not as hot as Melbourne.
We are gerang up for Christmas. Peter and Brony are coming up over xmas so it will be fun with Tim being here as well. Too bad you cannot make it, but hey we understand.
I'm off to HK tomorrow afternoon, I will do some work watch a movie then I'm there.. not too bad.
I so proud of you any more photos?
Love you darling
Daddybones
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