Category Archives: Tanja

First Competition Day

  First Competition Day Today was the first day of Nick and Tessa’s competition. It was really interesting to see all the other competitors and there is a clear difference between any Chinese team (like Shanghai and Tianjin), Malaysia and … Continue reading

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Opening Ceremony

Today we had a full programme. It started off this morning with a visit to the Huo Yuanjia memorial place. This is quite an amazing site right next to the Kung Fu school. I feel lucky that our coach had … Continue reading

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Banquet Reception

Banquet Reception So our coach arrived last night from NZ and most other teams have arrived today. There is an Aussie team, a Swiss team, Canadian, USA, Malaysia and three different Chinese teams from various places. The Aussies have “older” … Continue reading

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Beijing

Nihaoo, We have been in Beijing for four days now and sadly have had no internet access from the hotel.  At present we are sitting at Starbucks and have WiFi access, probably for the last time while in China, as … Continue reading

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Wow, look at that, Barrie has set up a blog just for us! Yeah, now I need to learn how to use it. :-) I will test how to add a photo and will use one of today, when we met up with the Barrett family whom we had as neighbours for two months.

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