Hello! I have successfully arrived in my placement city of Wuzhou, in Guangxi province which borders Vietnam :) With me at my placement are Adam, 30, from Cheltenham; Monica, 30, from Norway; and Daga, 30, from Poland. So they are all 30, I am the baby of the group! The train got into the station of Guilin 90 minutes late so we were on it for 26 hours! Not an experience I wish to repeat! I...

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I am now in Beijing! I arrived yesterday morning at 9.30am China time, and we met the TTC people and got drinks etc at the airport then came to our hotel. We sorted visas out and rooms keys etc, then had the afternoon to ourselves. I was so tired so I went to bed, but others braved the metro and explored a bit, and went to Tiananmen Square. Lunch and dinner were good, a sort...

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