More from China - The Summer Palace

A big bronze cow overlooking the ornamental pond.<
Bugger! My camera screen is broken! And there is no viewfinder...


This one came out alright, though....


And this one....


Perhaps I could have managed to do all my photography for the trip without a viewfinder / screen but in the end I went to get it repaired at one of these stands that they have that say, "we'll fix your camera, quick." Well they did, so I went out for some duck as a celebration.

What are you doing? Helter CELTA

Work piled on work is all that I am up to at the moment. The the first week of the CELTA course has been always busy, usually straightforward, sometimes entertaining and rarely relaxing. I've virtually never had ten minutes spare to upload photos / update my blog / tidy-up / think of any more vers using "up".

The highlights of the week have been mostly linked to the guys I am studying with. They are a fairly intelligent and amusing bunch:

James
James has the daze award for style in class. He found a picture of a caravan and a bunch of cows being blown away to illustrate a hurricane.

James: Do you see this often in Poand?
Looks around, tries to get an answer from the students.
James: Do you see this in Poland, Student A?
Student A: Well, we have cows in Poland.
James: Yes, but they usually stay on the ground in Poland, don't they?

He had a few moments like this, and in a class where one is an observer it is not polite to laugh, so I had about five minutes of trying to stifle myself each time.

That's all from me for now. Eyes peeled for the rest of China some time this weekend if I can drag myself away from the City aniversary celebrations!