back from a holiday.... but no sydney....

after 10 days holidaying north-eastern china with my mum, im back in yantai.... i was supposed to go to sydney this sunday... but once again... for the 1398th time, the boss has changed plans... and now we CAN renew our visas in china... so i dont have to goto sydney....

kinda sux coz i was really looking forward to going home....

anyways... the holiday was good... spent a day in shanghai before my mum arrived in china... got ridiculously hammered... haha

i went to beijing with my mum.... and DAMN~~ its dirty!! i've been to beijing many times now... but it's hit the peak of "diiiirty~". with the olympics only 20-something days away... damn~ so i decided to take some photos of 'beijing today' as it is...

first, they are still working on the main stadium... not sure what they are doing... but im sure its not supposed to look like that....

and as for the escalators up to the stadium front... well, im sure they weren't meant to look like this too....

i guess it wouldnt take too long to fix these things up tho... right?

as for making the footpaths around the stadium area... again.... it wont take long, but it leaves a hell of a mess to clean up....

after beijing, we went to "Changbai Mountains", otherwise known to koreans as "Baekdu Mountains".... going to the mountain was probably harder than getting up the mountain...

we had to catch a 8 hour bus from Jilin to the mountains, and had to join up with a tour group to enter the mountains.... but up the top is this AWESOME pond.... i think it should be called a lake.... but anyways, they call it the pond in the sky, or sky pond or something... i'd like to call it Bigpond... haha

in contrast to beijing, this place was really clean.... obviously.... i saw the chinese soccer team up there too.... knew no faces... knew no names.... i just knew that they had most recently beat australia B-team... and didnt make the world cup....

AND THEN~~~

returned to yantai... i still dont have to goto work until the 28th July.... my vacation was until this week.... and next week, our school had already told the parents that we are taking a week off due to visa problems, and the teachers had to all go back to their home countries....

BUT WE DONT!!! they are getting our visas from within china... and so i dont get to go home =(

i am planning on quitting pretty soon though... although... my boss did ask me to give him 2~3 months notice.... so even if i quit now, it wont be until november/december i will leave here... i also dont want to tell him that im quitting now... coz then they might get all EVIL on me and the other teachers going to beijing for the olympic games in august....

after i come back from the olympics, i'll tell them... ah... im gonna leave here soon.....

the irish teacher quit.... he told the boss that he will quit on wednesday.... so.... he's working until the end of august.... nice workplace huh? "I QUIT!!!".... "ok.... so i'll work for another 6 weeks... then leave..."

haha... well... after i say i quit in august... i'll be home in sydney around november or december.... DEFINITELY!!! (i think)