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Well,well, well where to start......I am going a bit backwards to catch up on all the crazy events of the last week and the past weekend...GO THE ALL BLACKS!

We were lucky enough to have a long weekend because it was the Chinese 'Mooncake Festival'. The mooncakes are not very appetising but the hot meat ones were delicious! We started the weekend in true Wuxi style at Starbucks, as you can see it was not your typical Starbucks drink...only in China!! Hey, what can I say, Pete received some bad news so we needed to do something to take his mind off it.

Saturday bought about the big match so it was off to the only Western bar in Wuxi with Australia Network to watch the Kiwi's take home the cup. Surprisingly....the Kiwi fans out numbered the Aussies! It was great fun.

Off to the Temple Markets on Sunday to pick up a Diablo......I am going to learn the ancient art of this thing if it's the last thing I do...I can throw it up and catch now....well...I did it once! The Chinese were in awe that a Lawai could do something this Chinese!

Monday consisted of trying the local cuisine (Japanese!) and walking home in the rain with our 'umbrellas'! That's the trouble with Wuxi, it is ridiculously hot and humid, you go into a bar...I mean restaurant and you come out and it is storming and pelting rain!

This week school has been mad, we have a huge performance for the government in the convention centre..trying to get 60 ESL children to earn 'We are the world' in English and to coordinate candles, signs and music has been a challenge to say the least but sounds great at the moment. I have been asked to see if I could run the MYP (Middle Years Program) art, write the curriculum and teach high school art......a load of paper work to look at and consider this weekend..yay me...thank goodness most people are away and I can hibernate.

Speaking of being away....Raihania is here soon..YAY! Bring on Nanjing! We have Mid-Autumn Festival holidays at the end of next week and it looks like 'Qingdao International Beer Festival' here we come!

Life in China is VERY hard,

Arohanui,

Love Amy xo