Friday, February 24, 2006
The new term has begun.
Hi there,
sorry to put so many pictures on the blog just now but I did get a bit carried away. We've been back in Haikou for a couple of weeks and have just finished our first week of the new semester. We've only got ten hours a week of teaching each this term since the third years have left. It feels very easy indeed, I just plan one lesson a week and teach it to five classes. I have Wednesdays off and on the four days I do teach I am finished by ten am on three days and finish at midday on one day. Rupert only teaches on three days, he has Wednesdays and Fridays off and only has one afternoon class. He has to prepare two or three lessons a week but then as I had to plan six lessons last term when he only planned one we think its fair!
Its nice to be back, although we are now trying to think of thinks to do with all this free time we suddenly have. We going to give Tai Qi a go and have fixed up lessons for every weekday evening starting next week. We've started running, playing tennis and cycling so hope to get fit but i'm not sure how much exercise we'll want to do once it gets hot again.
We are very excited by the arrival of Pizza Hut in Haikou, it has a different menu to UK pizza huts but still has some very genuine and non-chinese tasting pizza.
We plan to see more of the island this term, we plan another trip to the Resort Golden Palm in Sanya with my sister when she visits next month. We also want to visit some hot spring resorts on the island too. Our winter should end soon, the last few days have been a bit grey and miserable, temperatures are around 18/20 degrees but when the sun comes out its pretty hot. Last week we had a couple of sunny days and it must have been about 27 in the sun which felt really hot.
love Hannah and Rupert
sorry to put so many pictures on the blog just now but I did get a bit carried away. We've been back in Haikou for a couple of weeks and have just finished our first week of the new semester. We've only got ten hours a week of teaching each this term since the third years have left. It feels very easy indeed, I just plan one lesson a week and teach it to five classes. I have Wednesdays off and on the four days I do teach I am finished by ten am on three days and finish at midday on one day. Rupert only teaches on three days, he has Wednesdays and Fridays off and only has one afternoon class. He has to prepare two or three lessons a week but then as I had to plan six lessons last term when he only planned one we think its fair!
Its nice to be back, although we are now trying to think of thinks to do with all this free time we suddenly have. We going to give Tai Qi a go and have fixed up lessons for every weekday evening starting next week. We've started running, playing tennis and cycling so hope to get fit but i'm not sure how much exercise we'll want to do once it gets hot again.
We are very excited by the arrival of Pizza Hut in Haikou, it has a different menu to UK pizza huts but still has some very genuine and non-chinese tasting pizza.
We plan to see more of the island this term, we plan another trip to the Resort Golden Palm in Sanya with my sister when she visits next month. We also want to visit some hot spring resorts on the island too. Our winter should end soon, the last few days have been a bit grey and miserable, temperatures are around 18/20 degrees but when the sun comes out its pretty hot. Last week we had a couple of sunny days and it must have been about 27 in the sun which felt really hot.
love Hannah and Rupert
