Not doing office work on the office computer!

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Don't have anything to do yet.. Haven't got a class yet, but Boris(my boss/supervisor) assures me that I'll get one soon. He just can't tell me when soon is

Am going to go see if I can get internet in my room at 3, when the internet guy gets back. We should be able to get it, since they told us it was free and someplaces wireless, we just had to sign up. When we got here we thought we would have to pay for it, so it's quite nice that we don't have to after all!

The others, who are here too, are teaching right now. Their first lesson! Am waiting excitedly to hear how it went, 'cause it didn't go that well for N+K apparently this morning. Haven't spoken to them yet, as they're in another school(still on the same campus though). The students was very naughty and acted up the whole lesson it seems. Crossing my fingers that my students won't be like that.

Hopefully them starting late is a sign that they actually want to be here? Heh, they've prob been forced by their parents in reality...

Education seems to be very important here in China, and the students seem to spend all day studying. They have class for most of the day and then they've got a huge pile of homework to finish too. I can understand why we've been warned not to be surprised if the students said sleeping was one of their hobbies!

But I can understand why education is important, you need an education to get anywhere in life it seems these days, and with 1.3 billion other people trying to get succes, the competition is hard!

So far all the chinese we've met have been real friendly, and just wants to talk to us. Some of the others have even been offered shoes and things in return for english lessons at the Silk market! Which for me just shows how much the chinese wants to be a part of the international world. Though it's a shame that it's seems they're aiming more for copying western life than developing their own. I think some of the cultural things gets lost in the consumer focused westernization, but then again, I am a westerner who have all the things they want.