Plant life

The kids started at work today - lots of smiling faces eager to please, and that was just the teachers! I have 20 in my class and they seem a little quiet, but I am sure that I can start to stir them up a bit.

We had an eventful Sunday. We went plant buying. Doesn't sound too exciting i know, but when you don't speak Chinese and the seller doesn't speak English things can get interesting. We chose lots of plants - big and small - and then set about trying to get them delivered. This we managed despite only knowing the words for 'hello', '20' and 'delivery'! The rest was done by sign language and writing down numbers.

The woman wanted a deposit of 50 rmb, against a total of 350, and we thought they were being delivered at 9 am Monday morning. They actually came at 9 pm Sunday night, a little more than 2 houyrs after choosing them.

Which was nice.

Aytun has a friend from Turkey visiting tomorrow - hers sister's friend who works in textiles - so that's an unexpected bonus.

I'm going for a run. Or a sweat anyway.

Dom