A look at my Chinese Apartment!

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Heres a video of my apartment. Transcript: Hi everyone Im Ben from Guiyang in Southwest China. Today Im going to take you a little tour around my Chinese apartment. so lets have a look. First on the agenda, juicy door complete with upside down Fu symbol meaning blessing in Chinese. Unfortunately the door is not as secure as I would like. I was burgled once when I forgot to double lock it! Lovely little painting as you turn around you will see my authentic pine table. Behind this is a water butt. In China you cant drink the tap water.…

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This Site

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This website is run by Noon Elite recruitment and intended to give people considering coming to work/adventure/teach in China a guide to how life actually is for foreigners like me in the modern day China. There are blog style guides describing everything that us travellers have done here including price guides and ideas for travelling in and out of China and tips on how to live life comfortably in a typical Chinese up and coming city. This site is particularly useful to those interested in teaching English in China and contains links and helpful information to start your adventure complete with current…

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Dinner time

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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. Places at the table: usually the most important person at the table will sit across…

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