I’ve taken inspiration from the latest Star Trek - Enterprise (and the letters that Dr Flox dictates) and decided on catching you all up on recent events in rough date order.

Semester 2 (Mar-June 2009)

The semester ended fairly smoothly. We ditched previous ideas of our curriculum and were inspired by getting our army of kids translating the menus of local restaurants. We figured they win, from exposure to a larger vocab and experience in a live translation project; we win from gaining around 16 restaurant menus in English; and the restaurants win from getting an English menu and wining more laowai custom. It’s a 3-way win. In theory a fantastic idea; in practice, it took a heap of effort. It was all worth it in the end for the few happy faces that we saw from our favourite restaurateurs.

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KL is lovely, no really, it’s our kinda place. The weather is pleasant, even if it’s raining… the people are (mostly) smiling, always friendly and ever so polite, and the food… to die for. We survived the trip in from the airport on Air Asia’s bus and monorail to our hotel. Despite the monorail becoming […]

Check out that temperature drop! Almost 10 degrees in one day! The Chinese call the overly hot Autumn weather the Autumn tiger.. well, he just ran off with his tail between his legs. One day 33, next day 24. Jackets and longs are on the students already.
In other news of B&B, we have had recent […]

Firstly the folks (B’s) came to China for a visit. They went on a Yangtze cruise then ventured our way. We optimistically headed to Hangzhou and Ningbo for a holiday and looksie. The day we hit Hangzhou topped at 36 Celcius! We sweltered to say the least. We went for a few walks and saw […]

Well we are one week into Tim’s lifestyle hack diet of low or slow carbs and already 3 kgs lighter (both) which is pretty amazing loss for one week. Before you ask, it’s not water as we are both careful at drinking a lot of water (especially as it’s a hot summer at the moment).
So… […]