Pizhou Stories


Chinese Spa

A little story of my experience the other week in a 'spa' in Pizhou. It's worth saying now that this was an old email I sent, I couldn't put myself through the pain of re-living the experience to write it out again. But the language in here isn't the best, so I apologise in advance for that ! The best way to describe it may be to call it a poor ma...


Shiny in XuZhou

This weekend I was invited by a student to go and see her hometown and meet her family, a great opportunity to get out of Pizhou so a no brainer to jump at the chance to do this. I got the bus to her city, she is my student but lives in a different city she travels to school on Sunday and lives there during the week, which was over an hour and half a...


Sports meeting

First, it was nice to see the kids having some fun. It’s not something which you see a lot of in the Chinese schooling system and especially for this age group with so many big tests on the way for them. Well saying that, only the kids involved were really having fun, the rest of the students had to sit and watch and do homework for 2 days solid! Ope...