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Hello again everyone!
How time flies and it is now the end of January. Thank all my friends for your comments. Your sharing and communications are the most precious gifts I've received for the new year. Thank ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Learning English staff, specially to Jennifer, I've learnt a lot from your corrections.

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Hi everyone,

Happy Year of the Dragon! As I'm sure you know, 2012 is the Chinese Year of the Dragon. The Chinese Zodiac has 12 signs: each year is a different animal. People take on the characteristics of the animal of the year they were born in. I'm a Rat: apparently I'm intelligent, adaptable, quick-witted, charming, artistic and sociable. On the downside, Rats can be intolerant and scheming! Hmmm.

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Hi everyone,

Just a short-ish blog from me ahead of the weekend, I'll have more for you next week.

I hope that this weekend will live up to the last. On Saturday I was lucky enough to be invited to take part in a project that my friend Lucy has undertaken as one of her New Year's Resolutions. I say lucky, because this project is all about one of my favourite subjects: food.

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Hi again my friends, thanks for the Lunar New Year blessings! I passed China Town this afternoon and they were holding lion dances in front of a store, so I just took a photo.

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Hello everyone,

Thank you for your blog comments and thanks again to Xiaowei for her latest blog, which was jam-packed with brilliant photographs. Your dad clearly has a keen eye for a picture!

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Hello everyone!
Thanks for your comments and I like reading them, they've paint me pictures of many places around the world!

In the latest post Knickerbocker glory, Jennifer talked about her hometown South Shields in the north east of England. I enjoyed the scenes from the photographs, and it reminds me of my hometown, though it is not surrounded by coast and is a hilly land.

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Hello again everyone!

Thank you all for the warm welcome you've given me to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Learning English and well done to those of you who completed the homework - I'll give you the answers shortly.

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In the last post I talked about my study and my part-time job in the supermarket. I would really feel sorry for myself, however, to be in Australia but not to find time going to the beach.

So here comes me to introduce Kiama, a seaside town along the South Coast of NSW.I took the trip there with my own nearly a year ago, after that I've been to several other places along the coast of NSW, but Kiama remains to be my top favorite all these days.

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While cooking dinner last night for my sister, I decided to write this week's blog about siblings.

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Hi everyone,

First of all I'd like to say 'hello' and introduce myself. My name's Jennifer and I'm this month's teacher blogger. Not only am I new to the blog, but I am also new to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Learning English - I joined the team this week as a producer, so I'm slowly learning the ropes!

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Hi everyone! My name is Xiaowei, it's a common Chinese name and sounds nearly the same as 'shall we'. I'm now studying Accounting at Sydney. Before I finished my Bachelor degree in China, majoring in Journalism, and worked as trainee journalist for a newspaper for half year. During that time I felt I really need a more specialized view to analyse social issues.

So here I come to Australia, enjoying the crisp air, warm sunshine and famous beaches, in the meanwhile coping with countless figures and financial reports which drive me crazy every day, and struggling with the balance of study, work and social activities. Changing a major results in a series of changes in life as well.

I became a fan of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ when I was a freshman at university in China, and applied for setting up a blog at Learning English once but didn't success unfortunately. Now I feel lucky to own my blog here and share my experience of studying and living in another country, which I believe is a treasure for one's lifetime.

Hope you enjoy my blog. Happy new year to everyone!

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Hi I'm Michelle. I've been away from the Learning English team for a while but I'm glad to be back and am excited to be writing for the staff blog!

I hope everyone enjoyed a lovely festive period. Being back at work can be a bit of a shock, but at least I was lucky enough to have a lovely long break over Christmas, which I spent with my family in Newcastle.

One of my favourite things about going 'back home' for Christmas is getting to see the group of 'sword dancers' who, every year, jig their way around all the pubs in the village where my mum and dad live. It's a popular annual event and brings out all the locals to watch the spectacle.

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