Today I received a letter in the post congratulating me for topping the Maths GCSE exam—UK’s middle school graduation exam—amongst…
I had an interview with another A-level school today. I quite enjoyed these visits as each and every one of…
My roommate Adam and I were pulled out of the breakfast and called into the headmaster’s office. Something must have…
The one thing that all Chinese students studying abroad had was an electronic English-Chinese dictionary. It was a phone sized…
I bought a radio to practice English listening as I could l hardly understand anything people talked about outside the…
I loved school holidays and could never have enough of them. Schools in China had two terms a year and…
Should it be a surprise that in a school that taught English, there would be no native English-speaking students and…
After a weekend of settling in, my English education formally began today. And the beginning was very formal indeed. “Where…
I met our housemistress for the first time this evening when she came back from her weekend leave. Everyone in…
My hometown, Shijiazhuang, changed a lot during the fifteen years I lived there. Farmland and fields gave way to bungalows,…