Flying Visit!

Hello everybody! Just a quick visit and update, time is a precious commodity these days! Everything is going fantastically here! The kids are just fantastic! i could take them all home with me! Though I may get into trouble for that…

The people I’m working for and with are all fantastic too! Everybody is so helpful and keen to make sure I’m alright!

I arrived just after the start of term and so I’ve had to rush through getting everything right, so much to do with lesson planning, it pretty much feels like all I’ve done since I got here… once I learn properly what I’m doing things should get a lot easier.

Though on my day off I did manage to get a trip out a different district of Beijing, up in Haidian and went shopping, found a small area that does loads of Japanese stuff, need to go back and have a look when I have more time! (More time… Haha!!)

Anyway, will catch up again later, hopefully with photo’s!

Leaving

Well, today is very much the day! All my bags are packed, I’m ready to fly! Wow, that sounds like an opening to a song!

In a couple of hours I’ll be leaving my childhood home for distant shores! To take on a totally different career track!

Equal parts nervous and excited! And I don’t really have a lot to say right about now… I’m sure I’ll have more to speak about after I get some impressions of Beijing and China!

Catch you on the flipside!

A Life in Boxes and A Goodbye or Two

Well, my life has been packed up into boxes and my folks were up this weekend and have taken it all away with them!  Seven years of life here in Aberdeen has been, boxed, sold or slung away. Its a very strange sensation. Not very long left in Aberdeen now, another strange sensation.

Yesterday was hard. It was my last time to help out at the Japanese school here in Aberdeen. I hate goodbyes. But they are a part of life. I’ve helped out at the school for a couple of years and the place and the families mean a great deal to me. It was always something I looked forward to each week, saturday afternoons. Everybody was so good to me, they gave me cards and small gifts and there was a photo call and everybody wanted to be in the pictures!  I’m really going to miss them all. The kids will grow up to be fantasic people and I’m sad that I’m going to miss them growing.

But I get to have a new adventure with children from a different culture! I can’t wait! I also get to be with my girlfriend again which is the biggest driving force in the universe!

Some Thoughts on Train Stations

Train stations are interesting places. People come and go in them. Visiting places and leaving places.

I had the unfortunante advantage of experincing the latter. After five and a half months I had to watch my girlfriend get on a train and leave Aberdeen for the last time. I think this may have been the hardest thing I have ever done. I have done some very hard things in my life, leaving home for uni was quite hard, sometimes going to school was quite hard, my previous job was horible and gonig to work was very hard, but nothing prepared me for watching a train with the woman I love pull away from Aberdeen station… Though it still din’t really sink in at first. It wasn’t until 5:40 this evening when her plane was due to take off. Even in London she was still in the country.

Now she isn’t.

Wow, that was easy to say. Hard to grasp though.

It’s funny we were talking yesterday. When we first started going out, five and a half months seemed like such a short time. but once it was over and looking back it is actually a long time. And its still going! Things are slightly different now.

I think I’ve had my fill of train stations for a while…

Hello WordPress!

After a long absence of blogging, something like three years, I’ve decided its about time to track down a now blog site and start a new one!

A place were I can express my thoughts, in a fashion that may be understood (Then again, knowing the way I normally write…). It should help me develop the way I express my thoughts in a way that should help improve my writing. The writing I hardly do anymore… But still!

Lets see how well it goes!