Kevin and Anne
China 2006-8

SISU Shanghai 15-31st May

Tuesday 15th May

 

School as normal

 

Wednesday 16th May

 

Our final three boys pass their English exams required to apply for their Visa.

 

Anne has fall at school, nothing broken.

 

Our Passports taken by Jade to have them changed to Business Visa, and giving us another 3 months.

 

Thursday 17th May

 

Mr Li and Mr Collier talk about next Semester, conference cut short because Phone card used by school here rang out of money.  

 

Friday 18th May 

 

 School bus to Shanghai

 

Saturday 19th May

 

 Anne has a quiet weekend resting her back, it is getting better.

 

Sunday 20th May

 

Extended stay at Hotel to 6:00pm so we can go straight to the school bus. 

 

Monday 21st May

 

Six weeks to go at SISU. (that's what we thought)

 

 

 

Jade came to our room and told us we only had 2 more weeks of teaching because the students had two weeks of work experience and we had testing new students on the last week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

Tuesday 22nd May

 

  

 

Wednesday 23rd May

 

 Antonia's Birthday

 

Thursday 24th May

 

  Parents' meeting to discuss Visa applications, all but two students went home with their parents.

 

 

 

 

 

Kevin left 5:30pm to pick up Adrian Gan from the airport, driver got lost and trip to airport took 2hrs 20 minutes. Kevin knew they were lost when sign on expressway pointed back to Anting.

 

Adrian finally arrived at school at 9pm.

 

Friday 25th May 

 

 Adrian here.

 

Took Adrian to Japanese with a French touch barbeque for dinner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 26th May

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stay at school for weekend , parents of next semester's students to visit school

 

Parents' meeting for next semester's students, about 50 people (10 students have applied).

 

 

Lunch with Mr Li

 

 

 

 

 

Afternoon trip into Shanghai and we booked into our standard hotel.

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday 27th May

 

 

 

Showed Adrian around Shanghai, caught the Maglev train to airport, Adrian headed home, we headed back to Shanghai and caught the 6:00pm school bus back to school. 

 

Monday 28th May

 

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Another Monday night meeting, told Mr Li wants to finish class now, a lot of communications with St Paul's followed.

 

Tuesday 29th May

 

 

 

 Played cricket with our class

 

Wednesday 30th May

 

 Last class

 

We are waiting for a call from Sydney to see when we are going home.

 

Thursday 31st May

 

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