Not much to report from here at the moment. We are doing the same old same old really. Work, mark papers, make lesson plans, sleep and start again the next day. Penny and Michelle are coming back early so we are trying to get everything organised for that. They will come back on the 30th of May leaving me to finish everything here before returning on the 5th of July. Our travel insurance only covers pregnancy related claims to 26 weeks so we thought it best to make sure that Michelle was home by that time. It will leave me with two weeks of double classes and then some more exams to mark before coming home. It should be Ok as by then most of the classes will be exams or review classes for the end of semester.
We have been mailing a box a week home and are up to box four. It is amazing the amount of crap that you can accumulate in a relatively short time. especially when you have more disposable income than you are used to...We are trying to get some 'China' type household decorations for our new digs (where ever they may be). Last time around we bought them from various markets and shops on our travels around China; Beijing, Lijiang, Chengdu, Xian etc. This time its pretty much been Nanchang, Nanchang and Nanchang, (and a brief sanity restoring sojourn in Hong Kong) so we are using the wonderful taobao to accumulate our Bobo (Bohemian Bourgeois) stylings.
May day is coming up which means a long weekend this weekend which is nice. We have Friday off this week which rocks as I usually teach 3 classes on Fridays. Sweet.
The holding pattern continues and soon Michelle and Penny will be back home in the comfortable and familiar surrounds of the wonderful land of Oz.
On a different note, although one that is close to my heart, the weather here has been as variable as usual. We had a few scorchering hot dry days, some more rain and now we are back down to about 22 degrees. Lets hope that it doesn't drop any further as the winter woolies were in the first box that was sent back home!
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