Today I heard New Zealand mentioned several times on our news. First it was the yacht racing for the Louis Vuiton Cup and some footage, then the All Blacks and highlights of the game at Twikenham. Later there was a bit about the New Zealand pavilion in Shanghai for the Expo next year, which I hope to go to. For a small country New Zealand is often mentioned and we get daily updates of the NZ dollar and during the week details of the stock exchange are shown each night.

I enjoy listening to Willie Lose on Sportstalk on Newstalk ZB live from New Zealand, have read the New Zealand and world news and have just finished my first class, it is now 11:45am.
One of my students this morning has just been selected to go Indiana, USA on an exchange student visit, some students came here from Indiana earlier in the year so he is very excited and so am I. He is very clever and his English is very good.

It is Mei's birthday today. We are going to have lunch across the road at the Hot Pot restaurant, it is her favourite meal out. Hot pot, also known as steamboat, is popular during the winter and involves cooking thinly sliced meats and vegetable in a flavoured boiling liquid.

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Had not heard from Paul for several weeks and thought he was on another cruise around the Mediterranean on some rich guys boat, well he called and said he is in Australia

, actually Perth, for a wedding and thought he may stay there for a while if work turned up. He is happy.

Maybe I can use this site again while living here in China, who knows. Anyway, I will add any news here if anyone wants to read it. Best wishes to everyone

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