It has been exactly 4 weeks today since Chawks and I left Inglaterra to adventure over to this side of the world, and it has been the quickest month ever. But, its so crazy to think we are now 1/5 of the way through despite it feeling like yesterday, and, if I'm honest, I want even longer here already.
I've been feeling pretty smug this week, I'm not sure if its because I just feel so settled here and just so lucky that this is the life I have been given this year or if its just because of everything else, we've met some pretty awesome people the last few weeks, our Chinese is actually coming along and we've been discussing dates for travelling and researching costs. At the moment, I'm so tempted to stay as long as I can at the end and maybe go travelling for a bit, we're hoping on going on a girly beach week to reward ourselves for having such a great year, but even if that doesn't happen I am tempted to stay and do it by myself. But basically, I've had a smile on my face all week, and I challenge anyone to wipe it off as I genuinely don't think it is going anywhere for a while. I haven't even been too homesick, even though at home I know its a pretty sad time of year right now. Don't get me wrong, I miss the family so much but I know they will all still be in the same place in 5 months time when I come back. And, as much as I miss my babies, I keep finding cats here to play with to keep me happy for a little bit haha.
This week has been pretty similar to the last few really, we're getting into a bit of a routine. Classes, shopping (cheeeeky), a little more advertising for the language school and a pretty hectic party weekend. Being as its St Paddy's day today, we went on a bar crawl last night, despite horrid hangovers from Friday. However, starting the pub crawl on Jaegermeister shots is certainly something I didn't think my body could deal with but I coped. I also pretended to be Irish, worked a treat, I then wore glasses all night and got called hipster by a few people for actually pulling it off. There was a total of 230 people on the pub crawl last night, we had 5 buses as transportation, and as we like to say it was SUCH FUN. I also found 100RMB on the floor, now that's only £10 in English, but actually that lasts a while here! Shame the taxi was expensive home, but either way, woohoo.
I don't even have much to blog about today, I'm just pretty happy and wanted to share it.
Much love x
:o)) xx
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