It's all coming together..... Sort of

So this week has been quite good. I'm currently on a ram packed bus, as usual when I write these things, but when else do I have stupid amounts of time left over when I'm not watching dexter :/!

Anyway last weekend, Friday was chilled and alcohol free waiting for the arrival of Ivy, my little bundle of joy and Bolton Shaun. Irish Shaun and I stayed up late chating utter crap and being told off by my neighbour for doing my washing at 12 at night! The annoying things is all week Sunday-Thursday everyone in our block is loud and not just load but doing some weird type of something that causes noise! My up stairs neighbour sounds like she has some form of toddler running around in heels at all hours, choir and band practice not to mention everything else, it's like the second we get into bed everyone else wakes up. It stops around 12 and stars again at 6. So as bad as it sounds I seriously don't give a shit if my washing machine is loud at 12 for twenty minutes. We wake up stupidly early and Shaun arrives. After getting ready we head to Carrefour and meet ivy on the way. After buying pretty much half of Carrefour we ram our selves in to a taxi and head home and for some stupid reason think it's a good idea to start drinking at 3pm! We have a busy day a head of us. So ivy makes cabanara! Unreal. I make the sangria and the day begins. Jack arrives, then jade arrives and we head to the Christmas lights party! 

There was a live tiny Chinese choir! It was  so amazing and cute! There was free champers and prosecco and pate! I was beyond happy. Along with muld wine! I then made friends with small children and one who had eczema which delighted Irish Shaun no end, look at his face! 

So after raiding the kitchens and making friends with the head chefs, getting a grand tour...

And ensuring the owner I will be back with my parents for what looked like the most succulent steak I have seen in a very very long time, we head back to mine. For more sangria... Can you see where this is going, sangria, muled wine, prosecco and champers on one plate of carbonara and some pate and crackers.... Yeah well. After another complaint from the neighbours at 10pm we head to the electric underground night. We enter, we scatter! Shots of tequila, dancing on stage and bumping in to cherman (that's the Chinese German man I went on a date with, Sarah named him, I like it) anyway I don't remember much more than becoming an awful state! Some say I wasn't bad Bolton Shaun ensures me I was a frigging mess! So I wake up at home in bed. Which is always good. I'm told me Shaun Shaun and Lorraine had a full on fight on my carpet! And another knock from the neighbours came. I'm surprisingly not to bad. So the plan of the day is to veg! And veg we did, 5 quilts, 9 pillows, 4 bodies, lots of bacon sandwichs and part one and two of the hunger games the day is complete. Later we try all means possible to get a pizza delivered to the flat! Epic fail so I cook veggie stew! Whilst waiting for dinner to be ready im scrolling through fb and see the lad I was seeing back home has a new gf! Fantastic! My appitite evaporates immediately! And I huge wave of pathetic sadness comes over me! I'm blaming the hangover. I then dwell over this which is stupid but I'm now over it, I'm happy for him, we all wonder what ifs, and there pointless. I'm sure this is what inspired my horrendous nightmare during the week. Anyway. Monday still feeling like shit I have class at 8 I arrive do my teacher service while looking for flights to Aus! I find one, and then head back to find ivy has sweeped my flat and made my bed! I actually LOVE this girl!

I wish I could keep her for ever! I want to take her with me everywhere. Not only is she beautiful, kind and lovely she's hilarious and doesn't quite realise this is the reason she is actually attracting men from all angels! Anyway after agreeing we're all going to get redic dressed up for the Christmas party. Ivy heads home and I book my flight to Aus! Woop! 

I receive a text from my student who agreed to teach me Pilates if I teacher her English and cook her dinner! Well this was a fab idea on Friday I'm now dying and can't think of anything worse! But I'm so glad I agreed to still do it, she is so lovely! I actually finally, 3 months in made a Chinese friend! Shes funny, her English is great and she's a fab teacher. Her lessons are normally 250¥and hour so in all fairness I feel the deals not really fair but she wants to continue until June when we leave so that's a bonus. Next week it's Pilates some other form of English food and film night! And on line shopping! Seriously how anyone cannot be friends because of race and nationality boggles my brain! You can't get much different than Chinese and English! And when it boils down to it we're still women. Which also makes me think of one of my students I was talking to this week. Potato I think Iv mentioned her before. She's one of my best students but this week she was really quite and looked close to tears, once the class was focused on a task I asked her if she was ok and she said no something had happened. So I told her if she wanted she could leave the lesson. She later messaged me to tell me what was wrong and after chatting for a while she told me she feels I'm more than a teacher to her I'm her friend too! Which was so wonderful, really touched me.

Btw I am so inflexible it's not even funny! She has given me flexi exercises! I plan to bending all over the place by Bali! That's the Pilates teacher btw.

Anyway Tuesday classes finished I get back into bed and do my lesson plan for my extra classes that evening. Then she tells me the time has been changed. Not helpful as I have a class after. So lesson one canceled. Head to the other which I normally love but the kids are complete arseholes today. I don't normally call 7 year olds arseholes but this week I will. With in the first 5 minutes two of them started fighting, the others poked me and then the lesson over ran a lot even though I got there early! So I wasn't happy! But I did buy some ear muffs and find a pizza place on the way home, as the diet was going so well I got us one! It was so good! Just like takeaway pizza from home. I made an agreement with the pizza men if they give me free pizza I will teach them English! Not sure I should agree to this. I'm finally happy with my weight. Mass achievement for any women! Anyway we eat pizza and book out first accomidation in Indonesia! Hotel! Anyone that reads this that's backpacked! If you don't know this hotels are always cheaper than hostels in Asia' I don't know why but they are! But always know where the hostels are to meet people. Wednesday my morning classes we're canceled I spent the day, actually I can't remember!  Oh yeah, I woke up at 12, made eggy bread and bacon for me and Lorraine ( I don't know how we're both losing weight!)I then went to my last class, come back to finally meet Eric and book my flight to Thailand! For Some reason it does not work!  4 times I try and it's so annoying the flight time is actually perfect. Anyway I head to my extra classes in town, that finished I head home, I think I'll try the new way my students advise. Metro to south station then bus home. So jump straight on the metro get off twenty minutes later and guess what? The buses have stopped running! Fantastic luckily I took money out with me for no reason! At least I got a lift to my door. I get home and finally book my flight! I'm then told my lessons are cancelled again today! Happy days. I wake up to a message from Sarah and literally spend 4 hours talking to her! Speaking with my friends makes life lighter! Does that sound stupid! I'm so close to my friends back home that being away its only hard because of them. I can handle the lot, everything china throws at me, language barriers, toilets even the smell of stinky tofu. But I miss them and my Family too! Always! But today my spirits had a massive lift so that was great. 

Oh also Wednesday I got offered a new job, stupidly good hours amazing money and down the road. Only down side I would be leaving Lorraine! And I actually love living with her. We have so much fun. I even like most of my students and my flat even though everything is falling apart at the moment. Anyway I think I'll speak to Michael because really I just want better hours so I can travel. Well this back fired the prick told me if I wanted to travel I should quit and not be a teacher. He then tells me I can get a 50000¥ fine and all this bullshit! The mans a bell end! 

So anyway today me and Lorraine are lay in bed watching 127 hours! (It's so good but bloody hell, no pun intended) anyway bang bang bang on the door you would think it was Sheldon! Mr Guo comes in waving around the laws of china and my contract. I tell him to slow down and listen to me. After I explain I want to stay but just want better hours, that Michael was rude and told me to leave and the fact the contract is actually invalid for many reasons as well as the fact they have not stuck to their side of the contract, by making us work extra hours we did not wish to do or that is stated in said contract and even after saying we wasn't going to do them they still gave us. I told him if I wasn't given the extra pay and my hours and days are not cut next term I am leaving and going back to England! I also said me and Lorraine want similar days off to travel together. He seemed all lovely and agreed, so one of two things will happen now! He will do as he says or he will fuck us over! But he said I will try get it so you work all your hours in 2 or 3 days! God I would be happy! But we will see. 

I then discover to old friends will be in Perth when I head over there! Lots of fun a head!!!! 

Anyway I'm just arriving at work, I say arriving I'm just getting  into town it's another running job I think. So best sign off! Hope I haven't rambled too much! 

Home sick

Well it only took 103 days for me to become home sick. And it's so silly really because my family is coming so soon. But it was all down to a stupid dream. I dreamt I had gone home early and my friends we're frosty and cold at a Christmas dinner I turned up at to surprise them, not only was they not pleased to see me they all went for a fag break and never came back. The man I was seeing before I left had met someone new what made it worse is she was lovely in my dream. I bumped into them in the pub that was out side in a woods and we had a talk all three of us, Which wasn't nice for anyone. Then I turned up at my house and nearly got arrested for breaking into my house and horrificly when me and said man got back together (the only nice part of the dream) we ended up in a car crash on the way to a mates wedding. The crash turned out to be a speed boat and we was left bobbing around in the sea. 

Now that is one messed up dream. And what annoys me most about dreams is I thought of it all. It was all there in my brain and I put it all together. My friends looks, the mans blantent honesty at trying to meet someone new to help get over me fucking off to the other side of the world then actually falling for her. But what made it worse is he kissed me and as it was just a dream it wasn't half as perfect. Which sadly makes me realise how easy it is to forget things that once were, to top it off I think he was just speaking my words. Anyone that knows me can clarify I'm emotionally damaged and I cannot commit to anyone with out fear, so the chances are I only think I want him because I'm the otherwise of the frigging world. Irony would be if Iv actually fucked up something wonderful. I guess we'll never know.

Now I'm sat in class trying not to be miserable at some stupid pissing dream that in reality means nothing. Because I know my friends still love me. And what ever happened with me and Rory is done and in reality I am happy for him I don't want him sat waiting for me because as much as I would like to be sometimes I'm just not that selfish! Realisticly the idea of something is always better than the reality and I will stick to my life motto everything happens for a reason!  

Being gay in China

Something I have been meaning to write about for a while, is homosexuality in China. As far as I was a where it's a taboo or at least something not spoken openly about. No where near as common or accepted as the western world especially England. But what is so curious is how metrosexual the society is and outright fabulous (said with a wave of the hand) the men behave. The men are preened, overtly camp and extremely feminine. This is in mass amounts of men as well, and flip reverse this the amount of lesbians could give Chorlten a run for it's money.

The thing that is worth pondering is whether they know they are gay, or if there friends do. Because it's not everyone, there are clear signs like back home between the gay and straight men, so it's not like every man in China is camp and therefore they are all equally straight because this is just their behaviour. It's that there is vast amount of potentially gay men everywhere in china and what I want to know is do they know they like boys or do they think they are just feminine. For instance I have a boy in my class that crosses his legs and and constantly has limp wrists and then I have another boy that crosses his legs and there is nothing remotely feminin about him. The comedy factor is even with the mass language barriers and culture differences camp is camp in any language. You could find your self a boyfriends easily, if you gay that is. No one admits to being gay though, In class frequently people are teased in a joking way about having boyfriends, but nothing menicing and it's normally the lads with girlfriends that joke about it, I would never let out right bullying occurs or discrimination, anyone that knows me can clarify I am an out and proud fag hag. I seem to attract gay men easier than straight men to be completely honest. Luckily I love the flamboyancy! The other curiosity is unlike England gay clubs are hidden, underground and not openly known to anyone unless you are gay. Which shows the secrecy involved. In Birmingham being seen in a gay bar has no reflection on your sexuality it just means you are guaranteed an amazing night. Add pure irony to this and in Birmingham the gay quarter and China town are in the same place! I wonder what they would think. In all honesty they wouldn't even bat an eyelid at a man wearing a fur muff (not that kind) or skipping down the road waving a rainbow flag.

They don't seem to notice things that would get boys/men ripped apart in the locker room at school for being gay at any tiny sign. Going to dance lessons is cool. Holding your girlfriends handbag, singing love songs whilst dressed as a thug is the in thing. A few months ago we went to see a live version of Xfactor. And all the performers we're the same, lots of songs we didn't know all made to pull at the heart strings. Then this gangster guy whose video showed him rapping and tagging in the streets came on, we thought wow Chinese rap has got to be amazing to listen to. Then he comes on kitted out like 50 cent and starts singing some heart rendering love song! The disappiment was huge. My point is over here it seems unless you are physically gay nothing you can do or say and no amount of camp behaviour will make you labeled gay. And I like it. They do the one thing we dont for a society that is meant to be accepting of homosexuality. They don't insult people with words for homosexual. In England there are countless insults which in fact just mean homosexual. And why I don't know. Litterally some of the best people I know are gay. The funniest, smartest not to mention beautiful. So if anything being gay should be a completment not something men get all offensive about. 

So yea maybe China have got this one down to a tea and their blind innocents has helped them.

This and that

I keep meaning to write and then I don't know what to say so I thought I would do another photograph blog and see if I'm inspired into words. 

So we went to Chenzhuo, 

We had amazing Mexican food, visited Misty Lake, 

Went on a boat 

In Caves 

Managed to get the tour bus man to drop us in to town somehow. If you don't ask you don't get right.

Wild night out, I'm sure we met someone famous, couldn't be sure. The boys ended up worse for ware but me and Jade had a great night winding and making Chinese friends.

The night was fab except for Jack having to be carried home and Shaun's jacket being robbed. When we complained to the manager they got the CCTV footage up and was able to see it being stolen. Two hours later they had found out who had it and agreed they would get it tomorrow, which was great but ruined our day plans. So we pottered around finally grabbed it and headed to the mountaining with cable carts. I'm not normally a fanny but with the China's normal health and safety polices I had to have some concern.

We was extremely high up! They made lots of noise and they looked at least 70 years old! Anyway we survived. We got to the top with an hour and a half until out train was leaving for changsha and obviously the last cable cart down had stopped. So now we had the mission of navigating our way down an epic mountain, at high speed, with out killing our selves! After much debate we agreed to walk the road route and thank the lord with in minutes a buggy came down the road, I jumped in front to stop him and everyone jumped on board. We make it to the bottom with an hour to go. Some school girls tell us what bus to get so the debate of taxi and bus stops as soon as jade goes sprinting past and we follow in histerics! We are on the bus and with language barriers it's quite easy for us to get 4 stops and 40 minutes confused as they are the same piasing signal! Anyway with positive thinking in our minds we sprint up the steps with literally 3 minutes till the train departs. We run to the front pushing chinamen left right and centre to find out out train is delayed!!!!! This never happens!!! So happy we agree to head to Helens after for food! In my case lasagne! It's actually really good! 

The weeks finishs on a high. 

The next week Cian Lorraine boyfriend is leaving and in order to keep her occupied and far from sad we get excited about our holidays. So with much faffing about and many mistakes we book our flights to Bali!!! I actually can't even remember how it happened or came into conversation. One moment we're going Thailand and Cambodia the next it's Bali! 

So the week was spent booking flights and doing research. Iv also been talking to David.

After my last blog would you believe we started talking and we're planing to travel together from September! Seems most things work out anyway we'll see what happens that's a long way off anything could happen. 

Friday night jade, cat and Evie came over and I cooked some healthy grub as that's the plan now the holidays are booked. I'm leaving the country with one of the most beautiful women I know, Iv got to at least not feel body conscious. Food demolished films watched we had an early night for comicon! Well.... 

This was the best thing Iv seen at college so far! 

Being mobbed was definitely the right word for Saturday, you would of thought we was the main attraction 

  It was an incredibly mental experience, after leaving we had a mass ordeal which we won't talk about and then eventually made it on the right bus home and on the look out for Benny's. We didn't find it but did find a nice Korean place! And low and behold three doors down is Benny's. It's ok I went Sunday and my god is it good! 

Anyway we're all sat in the restraunt and it becomes evident none of us are in the mood to go out. So agreement made we buy a load of snacks and was back home we're the boys are waiting at Lorraine's. We break the news and predrinks begins. Lorraine, Shaun and Shaun head out about 11, we grab all the  bedding and make a mass bed in the living room 

Anticipating being woken up by the others getting in at silly o'clock I was surprised when I here them get in and go to bed. We wake up, I Skype Queen which was a present morning wake up and then I make bacon and egg sarnies for everyone. The day consists of films chilling and more research.

I then discover I can fly to Aus for £50 so this is a potential plan to see David and then head to Thailand. I just want some sun! Any sun I don't care at this point the weather in China is actually shit ATM with increasing dangerous pollution levels I'm scared of telling my parents about as they are arriving in 34 days!!!!! Ahhhhh 

Anyway today I tried my first frozen yoghurt. I liked it a lot! 

The last few weeks in pictures

Iv decided to do a post mainly pictures. Keep my memories a live.

Thinking I'm a last on the back of a moped with a beer

Windswept 

Being hijacked for dancing by a very energetic polish man

I had my first date in china with a German/Chinese man.

There was Halloween and Bolton Shaun's birthday party where we raided a bar......

There was the cat walk ....

I had beans for the first time in 11 weeks

Standard china, with blue sky's 

 

Temple raiding 

Hours of over time which I actually loved! And a Friday night with pasta, cheese garlic bread and comedians 

Life is pretty grand ! 

It's strange...

Because sometimes I can happily write nonsense for hours and then other times I think I have nothing decent to say. But I think maybe that's just life. A lot of the time I can sit in a room full of my closest friends or family and talk for hours. Same with new people I have just met. I have a nack for being able to talk to any one literally about anything. And then other times I like to just sit back and observe, take in all I can. When there is a big group and lots of conversations are happening at once, I try to listen to them all at once. Or certain words grab my attention more than others. Why is that? What draws our attention, do we subconsciously have things we are more intrigued about or are we just listening for what sounds most interesting? I really don't know.

Living in China has become normal. I still haven't found anything that drives me mad about the place except two of my classes. There's nothing I'm craving I can't deal with out food wise. This morning we are cooking a big breakfast! The weather has now turned. I would say winter is in fact here! This week has gone from turenchal rain to beautiful blue sky's! It's like being in England apart from the blue sky's bring the sun here. I'm working all hours I can get my hands on at the moment with the idea to travel as much as possible when my holidays start. I'm also toying massively with the idea of traveling afterwards. Like really traveling. The kind where you just travel until your money runs out. It drives me mad there is so much I want to see and the most annoying part is there is actually no reason why I can't do it. I was thinking about my friend yesterday and his increasingly ablity to faff for hours about a simple decision when I realised something about my self. When I want to do something like really want to do it. I don't hesitate I will just do it. If it's move to china I will book my tickets. Go to Thailand I will book tickets. Go shopping I will do it. Cook and so on. When I'm not sure or umm and arrr over something for too long that's when I know really I don't want to do it. Because I'm actually quite impulsive and I do what I want, the majority of the time. I wouldn't say I'm stubborn, I'm very flexible and accommodating and always listen to others ideas because let's be honest we're not always ways right or know best. But if my mind is set it's set. So I think my next thought is I want someone to travel with. I want someone that wants to spend a good portion of time with no actual time restrictions actually pottering around the world and seeing everything there is to see. Because although I feel I definately have become so much more Independant now I am here, I want someone to share it with and I am a big pansy really. The idea of heading to Columbia on my own scares me. Yet is thrilling. What scares me more is going home and not having my fill of the world. I know I wont be happy. And that saddens me for two reasons. I don't want to go home and wish I was somewhere else. I want to go home content with the idea Iv done it. Iv seen everything I want to see. No more I wish I had of or I could be here right now. I want to go home knowing I did this, I did that I had the best time of my life and if I died tomorrow I would die happy knowing I did exactly the thing I wanted to do most. I think traveling makes you grow. It makes you see things in whole new prospective. It makes you grateful for everything you have and opens your eyes to certain things you would never even contemplate back home. The other thing that's daunting is after being away you want to come home and tell everyone you care about how amazing your experiences have been. When you did this and that. And in reality no one gives a shit. No one that hasn't been traveling, actually no that's not true no one that has no interesting in traveling gives a shit. Anyone that does but just hasn't done it, or can't because of commitments is open ears and you can see when they are talking to you that they are living through you. But anyone else ask the odd question and then is bored of the relentless stories. You become annoying. I never quite know if that's because they seriesly don't care or if it's because some people just like to talk about them selves more. But then again that could be flip reversed talking about your adventures could sound like a monologue of "listen to me and all my stories" to someone else. There's no equal footing. Maybe there should be a land for all the travelers out there. A kind of rehab to ease you in to normal life again. You go get all your stories out. For a few weeks you talk about nothing but,  then when your released it's all out your system and your too talked out to ever mention it again? Maybe this is what I'll do. 

Alternatively I went to sleep thinking about some form of charity I could create, but I fell asleep and now I have no idea what the amazing concept was! Bugger

What a week

This week has been wonderful! Tuesday we went to the football. Yes me, I went to the football, although it's not something I normally enjoy apart from the World Cup, this was so good. We went to see China vs Parague. The stadium was unreal and just walking in, being surrounded by thousands of fans was an experience. We bought flags and tshirts, the local news reporters recorded us and we had a billion photographs taken.

The stadium it's self was not what I expected. It was huge and so snazzy. There was 26,000 people there. As soon as the doors had shut everyone in our section started moving. When we asked what was happening they said we now move to better seats, so we joined the mass crowd and ended up with front row seats. Within the first 18 minutes China had scored which set the atmospher on fire, starting an epic Mexican wave around the stadium 3 times over. Then they scored again! I found my self getting very excited , jumping on chairs, cheering an everything. China remained 2-0 up until the last 15 minutes when Parague scored but even with the over time they we're unable to beat China. A local man told us that this was a first for China playing well. We must of brought them luck. Afterwards we headed to Helens for burgers and free beer! Proper man night. Once seated and food ordered a string of free drinks, tankards, pitchers of cocktails and more beers arrived. This on a normal day would of been amazing but we all had work in the morning and Shaun's and Rachel had to make the last train home. Regretfully we had to decline the gesture and pass the drinks on to the next table. Wednesday very tired I had 3 double classes which went swimmingly. On the evening I finally bit the bullet and and Lorraine dyed my hair. Luckily it came out fab. No more roots! Thursday I woke to find both my classes had been canceled so instead of heading back to bed I went shopping, in record time I might add. I got so many winter clothes for a bargin! I came home and tidied. At This point Lorraine is beyond excited as Cian is already on his way to China!!! I was still unsure what I was doing the evening as I was meant to be going for dinner with Jack but as he hadn't been paid along with a few others, which is awful considering we have now been in China for two months! My night consisted of more californiacation and being eaten alive by mozzys! First time in ages I slept horrendously. I woke up after a bad dream,boiling and covered in bites! Aircon and bite cream goes on and broken sleep continues. I wake up still with no plan for the weekend. I was initially meant to be going to the big Z to do some modelling ! Ha yes me modeling I can bearly take a selfie right! Well anyway the man told me he needed me to audition on Saturday and the shoot had been moved to Sunday so Cat and Evie asked me to join them in xiangers and I thought why not. I packed and headed straight there after classes, with a quick hello, nice to meet you to Cian as I was leaving. I get to the bus station, I will no longer be using, and the next bus isn't for an hour. While waiting for the bus the conductor man ushers me on a bus 20 minutes early. I'm all settled and talking to a nice lady when a man gets on and starts going mad that there's no seats left. I just know that I'm the problem but think hmm let's just wait it out and see. So when the lady takes my ticket she and the whole bus start laughing that I'm on the wrong bus and I have to quickly depart. Obviously my bus is then twenty minutes late! Finally on the bus, the debate then occurs do we head to the big z to meet the boys for a wild one. After much deliberation we decide to have a girls night plus beast in xiangers! It was like a sped up version of all our nights out but with only the best bits. We predrink and divulge private information as per. Head to dongers for free drinks, a spot of pole dancing and a massage this time. Then on to Soho. Straight on stage, but the best part about this night was I felt like I was at home with my girls. We danced the best way to dance like complete and utter twats! The lunges came out, squats! Few yoga moves a bit fishing and the lorn mowa! I have never seen Chinese people look so confused. And then when the Dj goes on his toilet break we manage to soften the stern bouncer who let's us play with the decs and mic! I even gave him a bit of a tickle and got a smile out of him.

Straight from here we head to Shoa Koa devour a lot of veg that I'm not intierly sure we paid for and head home. Where lots of pillow talk occurs. Jade was my cuddle buddy tonight, and isn't she snugly!

We wake up at 830 get ready and head to the girls to shower grab there stuff and make our way to the big Z.

 

The last section I wrote was deleted so I'll try again. I'm also in an extremely pissed off mood as my class has just told me I need more patients, because they don't understand. I said that's fjne but if you do not tell me you don't understand I think your just bored or not listening.

Anyway I also think the Chinese government have a deal with all tissue factories because they must be making a mint from it. You have to take your own toilet roll/tissues to the toilet in most places!

Anyway back to the weekend! We head to the girls get quickly showered after eating what can only be described as a Chinese oatcake and get a lift to the bus stop that arrives straight away and is half the price. The day is going well! We arrive drop our bags at Rachel's then head to meet the modeling guy. He and his gf take us to some snazzy restaurant and order a shed load of random food that is impossible to get through. Then on to the studio! God I don't know why I even considered doing it (actually I do, the money was great) but I juat can't pose to save my life, I got changed and was told to stand in a certain spot and move my legs around ha! It lasted a whole of ten minutes then we had a family portrait! 

The guys we're actually really nice so I wasn't that bothered about not getting it we then left them to go shopping! And shopping we did! I was really shopping for everyone else but I did treat my self to two beautiful bags for a steal. After entering every boutique on one road we then headed to what can only be described as China's Primark! It had everything, I quickly vacated so not to buy anything more than the two pairs of pumps for £9! 

We headed back to Rachel's with one thing in mind, Pizza! The lads we're off out on a lads night and we had fully embarced the girls night with pizza, face masks, foot masks and copious amounts of girl talk. Lots of hilarious stories later we head to bed to wake full refreshed and early enough for a maccys breakfast! We head home easily and I just chill out. Then get ready for the Belarus symphony orchestra with Jade. Some how she managed to get VIP tickets so after making the two hour journey to Jades we got a lift there and we're amazed it was set up in the base of mountain and was stunning

They played so many beautiful songs and then the opera singer came out and the whole night was just wonderful. Someone also bought us candy floss lol. 

At the end I got a lift to a taxi and headed home. The weekend was pretty much perfect! Exactly what I needed and so much fun to really catch up. As much as I love going out I actually love to just sit and chat. 

I also managed to avoid the 'date' with one if my students lol! So all in perfection