China

Finally, we get to see some of these people we were promised. And after 30km of walking, we got to see a few nice sights too. I get the feeling that today, we

Our last lecture down, some packing, and we were leaving Weihai behind in our drivers rear view mirror. I'm trying to remember, but I think this was my second ever domestic flight without

To answer your first question: No, it is not two o'clock in the morning. Not even in Australia, though they're quite a bit closer. So I've discovered the great secret to showing beautiful

So, it's two o'clock in the morning, and I really should be going to bed rather than writing this blog. But at the same time, I am determined not to let things slide.

Woke up this morning to find myself bitten, twice. Even as I'm writing this entry, it itches like mad but it also doesn't look like your normal mosquito bite. What weird insects does

Today we managed to get access to the theatre where we were going to be holding our presentation. The first thing we notice … the internet is far better in the lecture theatre than

I guess today was in some ways the most relaxed day. After we have done the one 'tourist thing' there is to do in Weihai, we focused on the presentation we are supposed

So, getting to our tourist island was an adventure all by itself. We told our taxi driver that we wanted to go to Liúgōng Island and to take us to the docks. When

Came to our lecture theatre almost 10 minutes early today only to find that everybody still beat us to it. I'm slightly curious whether their previous lecture was already in the same room

At one of the official welcoming dinners, we were discussing about how we were attempting to find ways to engage students, make them participate during the lecture, answer questions and the such. The

Tradition says that when I go travelling, there must be hot chocolate. Apparently it took 5 days to fulfil this tradition, but we have finally managed. Another two hour lecture down and we

Today's lecture was fairly late so we decided to explore Weihai a little more. Walking along the beach for a while, we managed to find a fairly large garden with large stones, small

So I finally found out why accessing my blog from China is so painful. The answer: the blog template uses a font hosted by google, and my browser always hangs attempting to get

So, you wake up, find yourself a window, and look out to remind yourself where you were. In front of you, there's a big white circular thing known as the moon. … wait no,

For the fact that our plane was late boarding, they didn't waste time trying to get it into the air considering that the pushback started before people were able to sit down. Flying