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