Getting things ready for China means dealing with two bureacracies - yippee! I am officially fit and well having recently undergone blood tests for everything under the sun, a chest x-ray and an ECG. Phew... Just have to try and get my money back from the French social security system now. All fun and games.

Apart from that, I have been running lots (and getting attacked by a small yappy dog who tore my shorts but fortunately not my leg), climbing a little, swimming in the sea a little and generally not working too hard. Can't be bad. I'll certainly miss it here. My plan is to find some French people in Kunming in order to keep up my French just in case I decide to come back here later.

It was my flatmate, Jess's birthday last week, so I made a cake to celebrate. We also went for a walk to the Ile Ste Lucie, which was nice apart from the biting insects!


Anyway, some more photos for your viewing pleasure.

Hello everyone! I'm doing a lot better on the posting front, though I think I need to tell more people about my blog cos I feel like I'm writing to myself at the moment.

I'm currently on 2 weeks holiday and up until today was enjoying the sunshine. Unfortunately, the clouds have reappeared, so today is catching up on jobs, reading and dvds...


Yesterday I went walking with Will, an English guy who started off as an English assistant here, and is now trying to get qualified as an English teacher (not easy!) We managed to get adopted by a lovely golden labrador, not long into our walk, and he followed us the whole day! He was very nice, but we gave him the name 'Stupid' for good reason. When we got back we tried to take him back to where we'd found him, but there was no-one in. We then took him to the police station in St Pons, where we were lucky enough to catch the duty policeman, just as he was leaving. The owner had called the police and left her number, so lucky we were able to reunite dog and owner! The poor dog fell asleep on the floor of the police station, exhausted...


Some photos to show you just how cute he is!