As I write this, the whole school are outside doing their daily morning exercise to 'Everybody' by the Backstreet boys. And this is completely normal to me now. I don't think I've experienced proper 'culture shock' since being here, but everything is still totally weird in the best way. England is going to seem so boring when I get back. Maybe I will even miss the chicken feet everywhere and live toads hopping about on the meat counter in tesco.

We experienced the nightlife in Dongcheng this weekend, which is where the main bar street in Dongguan is.... and my gosh we were celebrities. Girls were fighting each other off to get photos with me on their phones, everyone wanted to dance with us and give us free drinks and free food. I could get used to this! The clubs were pretty cool but so strange, with models in UV underwear dancing around with glowsticks. We also met some other westerners who live in Houjie, two of which work at the kindergarten attached to our school, the other two are dutch and work in the furniture business. This is great news as it means our crowd of English speakers in Houjie is growing by the day... so even if there is a lack of things to do in our immediate area, we have a nice group of people to sit and do nothing in the market with. We've also started playing a lotttt of poker when we get bored  and too tired to go out in the evenings, so when I get home I'll be straight down the casino to win back my travelling expenses ;)

Other than another great weekend, this week has been pretty uneventful so far... a lot of our lessons have been cancelled due to tests and practice for a show on Friday (of which we are the guest judges, of course). This means a lot of sitting in the office 'lesson planning', aka sitting on facebook/running to the fake starbucks round the corner/escaping home for naps. The weather has gone very humid too, like the air makes you literally damp when you walk through it. Hopefully it will rain it out this week and be sunny again for the weekend so that we can go to the beach in Shenzhen!