A typical day teaching English in China Instead of more sugary anecdotes suggesting how awesome coming to a poor city and teaching English in China is and constantly looking at it through rose tinted lenses I want to give you a very neutral post about a poorer aspect, teaching in a distant, lower quality school and walking around the surroundings to give you a feel for what it will actually be like if you come to teach here. So, here is mine, Marco and Mitch’s…
Read More »The following 2 movies are video tours of my colleagues apartments in down town Guiyang. There is a double apartment- two apartments joined together and a single self contained apartment with a large bedroom and bathroom. I have tried to be as neutral as possible when describing these flats along with their pros and cons. I hope you find it eye opening.
To save me from lugging my hand luggage around with me I decided to post all the things I wanted to take home but didn’t have room for. This mainly comprised of my winter gear, jumpers and a jacket along with an abundance of multinational souvenirs such as Japanese coffee mugs and Cambodian football shirts that I had accumulated over the past 7 months. In total for this first of two despatches I had about 20 K.G’s of belongings to ship back. Sending them home was surprisingly…
Read More »As a foreigner in China you will eventually have to attend an important or formal dinner, and there are some things you should know: Chinese formal: if you are thinking you will arrive and everybody will be dress up and “formal” you are wrong, in Guiyang most of the time people wear formal-casual outfits and you are a foreigner so it doesn’t really matter what you are wearing most of the time. If you are supposed to wear something particular someone will let you know.…
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