We got up relatively early and went hunting for some fruit. We found a stall with ladies selling mangos. Christine tried to buy one mango, but the ladies insisted that it was 3 mangos for 100NT, then they gave her two extra for free, so we ended up with a truck load of enormous delicious…
This had been designated as a bit of a rest day. We slept in for a bit and then had a bit of a think about what we were going to do. We planned to go to the gym, collect some food to cook up for breakfast and lunch and to meet up with the…
We got up at 4:45 and started getting ready. We managed to set off an alarm on the front door as we were leaving.Thankfully after leaving it for a bit we were able to re enter the code and silence the alarm before the national guard turned up to arrest us. We walked to Nezu…
This was the time that I was finally able to use those years of Chinese study to achieve a tangible result. It was later in the afternoon Tiffany, Byron and myself had decided to go for a bike ride from Kirra beach where we were staying via the bike path that runs along the beach…
Another spectacular weekend full of action and adventure, it all started on Saturday morning, well actually it started on Friday night with one of the biggest rain storms south east Queensland has ever seen. Paige’s friend Dakota had come around hoping for a surf session in the morning and looking forward to a bake off…
13 October 2013 I have been studying Chinese on a fairly consistent basis since the beginning of 2009, and although I have a long way to go, I have managed to pick up a fair amount of vocabulary and have had some cracking experiences along the way. I have put together a few tips and pointers…
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