Home For Christmas

Well tomorrow we get on a train that will take us to the south of China, from there we will go across to Hong Kong and catch a plane back to the UK.

My younger brother Aaron and his fiancee Lois will get married on 22nd of December in Southampton, so we are really excited to get back for the wedding. After that we will spend Christmas with my Family in Southampton and then boxing day will drive up to Heysham to catch the boat to the IOM. We will then leave the IOM on 2nd January to start the long trip back to China.

It's going to be great to get the opportunity to see friends and family again, if anyone would like to meet up with us please let us know and we will try and arrange it.

Breaking the Rules

Last weekend my teacher had to travel 10 hours by train to her hometown for an exam, she did the exam and came straight back. She found out later that week that she passed the exam and so would have to go back the following weekend for a medical exam, and then the weekend after for a practical exam. She was not to chuffed by the idea of all of those hours on the train.

The funny thing was that instead of conceding the fact that she was going to have to do all that traveling she was on the phone to her Mum asking her mum to find someone that looked like her to go in for the medical on her behalf!! And this is totally normal.

The mentality out here is: It's only wrong to break the rules if you get caught.

This is why there are loads of corruption problems here, and are likely to be for a long time, it's built into the way of thinking.

TV time?

Yesterday Jenna went out to meet some Chinese friends for lunch. While they were eating one of her friends told Jenna that he has a friend who works for a TV station and that they were looking for a foreigner to appear in a TV commercial!! Of course Jenna being Jenna was more than excited about this and volunteered and came home all looking forward to it. But after she got home her friend called back and said that they were after a man, and asked if her husband would do it, to which she said yes. This sort of thing is not really my cup of tea, but I thought what the heck, it'll be a laugh.

So we went there today. They took some pictures of me and told me that they would show them to their client and they would get back to me about it. They were also interested in having Tabitha in some ads too.

Watch this space....lol......

At least they told me if they do want me they will give me a DVD with the ad on.