WANDERWORLDLUST

Hey all! So, last Friday morning I headed to Shanghai Pudong International Airport early in the morning in order to catch my flight to TAIPEI, TAIWAN. I booked this trip a few weeks back as I’ve always had a desire to visit the one and only Taiwan. It was just a short two-day trip – but it was well worth it and I had a great time. So, I arrived (short flight time of two hours) into Taipei at around 10am. It was easy and efficient to take the metro to my hostel location. I remember my first impressions of Taipei being that it was in many ways, as compared to mainland China, much more civilised and everyone on bikes/scooters wore helmets! This was great to see. So, I dropped my stuff, got some tips from my hostel who were pretty helpful and headed out to explore some of Taipei’s main sights. I headed first to the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall; a national monument in memory of the former President of the Republic of China. It was an interesting place to visit, learn the history ...

Hey hey hey!! So this week I had lots of fun teaching SHAPES! To save time on lesson planning, apart from grade 5 whereby I planned a different lesson, I taught shapes to all – with differentiation of course. It was so much fun! We literally bought the classroom to life by exploring and presenting all the shapes we could see in the classroom. This alongside with teaching (for an end of year performance) FROZEN – LET IT GO to my English Corner class in one of my schools, made my working week fun and enjoyable. On Friday I had my usual Chinese lesson in the morning and then headed to People’s Square to meet a friend for lunch and a catch up. I had a scrumptious beef fried rice – spicy just how I like it! Damn I’m gonna miss the variation of food to offer in China when I go back to England. After lunch I headed to my usual Shanghai Foreign Language Book store to get some work done. So, this week I was pretty productive. I’ve booked my flight back to England (20 th July)...